lists-centos wrote: > You have to have changed more than just the sendmail.mc/cf to make a > default centos sendmail setup an open mail relay. > > Your /etc/mail/access file is where things are defined as to what > you relay for. The /etc/mail/local-host-names effects what you > accept mail for. > > Make certain that what you're using to test that's it's an open > relay is reporting things correctly. There's a difference between > sendmail being "open" (accepting mail from the outside) and an "open > relay". The former is expected from a mail server, the latter is a > problem. > > I use: > > <http://verify.abuse.net/cgi-bin/relaytest> > > which runs through a range of tests. I tried it against your > 24.123.23.170 mail server a few min. ago and all was fine. > > - Rick > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > >> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 03:33:11 PM -0500 >> From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> >> To: CentOS ML <centos at centos.org> >> Subject: [CentOS] close open relay >> >> hi all, running centos 4.7 i686. >> >> I seem to have an o pen r elay sendmail server. >> How do I close it? >> >> I have the STRAIGHT centos install sendmail.mc file. >> Only thing I changed was: >> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl >> >> so as to allow incoming email and not just localhost. however this >> seems to relay everyone. >> >> I looked at http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying but it just >> talks about (AFIKT) >> enabling specific relays to occur - not how to CLOSE the relaying. >> >> How do I close the relay? >> >> Jerry >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > ------------ End Original Message ------------ > > > > When I run the following I get broken web page: http://verify.abuse.net/cgi-bin/relaytest I am getting investigating all this as I am getting return emails from sbcglobal that I am spam. Jerry