[Greylist-users] Relaydelay on main mail server?

thing thing at thing.dyndns.org
Mon Apr 17 18:44:00 PDT 2006


You might be right....there might be a "proper way" the documentation is
a little sparse....

This was how I fixed it though...

regards

Thing

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:47, Dennis Wynne wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I was aware I could whitelist the local IPs, but I was thinking I must have 
> some setting messed up since it would seem to be better if the script never 
> had to fool with outbound traffic from the local PC or the subnet at all.
> 
> On my box e-mail that I send from the local box (using pine as root, for 
> example) will go out via SMTP to the real server and it never hits the 
> database that I can see. So I assumed I have something configured wrong in 
> either sendmail or relaydelay that would cause it to even LOOK in the SQL 
> database when it should be skipping that step - I thought.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> ===== Original Message from greylist-users at lists.puremagic.com (Greylisting 
> Users and Developers Discuss) at 4/17/06 4:29 pm
> >There is a whitelist_ip.txt file in your setup directory.
> >
> >Read the beginning of it.
> >
> >It will show,
> >
> >INSERT INTO relaytofrom (relay_ip, record_expires, create_time)
> >VALUES ('127.0.0.1', '9999-12-31 23:59:59', NOW());
> >
> >so login to the mysql database with mysql -u root
> >
> >and run those 2 lines, also run them for your local subnet.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >Thing
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:04, Dennis Wynne wrote:
> >> My Greylist / relaydelay is still going great - using CentOS, sendmail,
> >> MySql, etc on a box ahead of our real mail server. It just accepts the
> >mail
> >> and forwards what passes the tests. All mail is still sent out via the old
> >> (real) mail server.
> >>
> >> I am setting up a box from some friends of mine but this time we want the
> >> relaydelay script, MySQL, sendmail, etc to run on the actual mail server.
> >Or
> >> rather I should say instead of forwarding the mail that passes, it keeps
> >it
> >> on the server for them to POP3 or IMAP4 off. It will be their only mail
> >> server and will handle outgoing mail and incoming mail.
> >>
> >> I have it set up and working, but when I send mail out via SMTP from a
> >local
> >> IP as one of the users (myname at some_domain.com) it does not sent it right
> >> away, it gives my e-mail program a TEMP FAIL and does not sent out the
> >mail
> >> until I retry once the timeout has expired.
> >>
> >> First, I assume that this can be done - using the anti-spam stuff on the
> >> actual mail server?
> >>
> >> Second, what did I do wrong :-) ?  How do I tell relaydelay this mail is
> >> outbound for a user on THIS domain and it needs to pass it out w/o doing a
> >> temp fail? Or do I have a setting wrong in sendmail?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dennis
> >>
> >>
> >>
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