Re: simple questions...I hope

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bob Manson wrote:
> I'm trying to configure the smtp-policy.relay file in my new installation
> of zmailer-2.99.50s10 on a test machine and am having some problems
> getting it to work. If I telnet to the sendmail port of machine "a.b.c"
> and manually try to relay to d.e.f (i.e. MAIL To:<bob@d.e.f>) I get a
> message: 
>
> 553 5.7.1 Policy rejection on the target address
> 
> However, if I send mail from another machine on a different network (mail
> a.b.c\!d.e.f\!bob), the message is accepted and relayed to bob@d.e.f

	That is because we don't trap  user%remotehost@thishost  type of
	relaying at the moment.
 
> As suggested in the manual, my smtp-policy.src file contains:
> 
> #| -- 1st alternate: No MX target usage, no DNS existence verify
> #|    Will accept for reception only those domains explicitely listed
> #|    in  'smtp-policy.mx'  and  'localnames'  files.  Will not do
> #|    verifications on validity/invalidity of source domains:  <foo@bar>
> #
> .                       relaycustomer - relaytarget -
> [0.0.0.0]/0             relaycustomer - relaytarget -
> #

	I think the 1st, and definitely the 2nd alternate processings
	are broken in up to, and including 2.99.50s10.  A fix for it
	is in my CVS, but I have not had time to make proper *release*
	yet.

	The third alternate works just fine.
	(Now you can guess, what I use normally...)

	I have now 4 days before I fly to Orlando for IETF; anybody
	around Florida wishing I could drop by during the 1st week of
	December ?
...

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>