[SLUG] Problems with sendmail and authorization

[jamie]

>  I have modifyed my access file aready to include each machine.  I dont want 
>  to relay blindly on the basis I am localhost, I want to authorize myself 
>  prentending I am not localhost when I realy am.
>  
>  The situation is, my sendmail is listening to my ip 24.101.x.x instead of 
>  localhost, so I wish to configure my email client to connect to this ip 
>  pretending it was an external server, then send and recieve mails by 
>  authorizeing first, I do not wish to blindly relay.  It does relay blindly 
>  when I tell it to listen to 127.0.0.1 I dont like this
>  
>  So I want to connect to 24.101.x.x (localhost) as if it were a remote host, 
>  and I wish to authorize as if my friend was connecting.
>  

I'm just throwing sticks here, but is this enabled in your configuration?

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html

Jamie

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