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Author: Shawn T. Rutledge
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Subject: relay in sendmail
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:35:00PM +0000, arson smith wrote:
> I did find this in some documentation but not sure what to do
> with it:
>
>
> promiscuous_relay
>                 By default, the sendmail configuration files do not permit
>                 mail relaying (that is, accepting mail from outside your
>                 domain and sending it to another host outside your domain).
>                 This option sets your site to allow mail relaying from any
>                 site to any site.  In general, it is better to control the
>                 relaying more carefully with the access db and the 'R'
>                 class ($=R).  Domains can be added to class 'R' by the
>                 macros RELAY_DOMAIN or RELAY_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to
>                 MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below).

>
> I think this is what I want to do but I am not sure how to turn it
> on. I will keep reading.


That's a feature too; use the same syntax as the other one below.
But be sure it absolutely can't be accessed from the Internet or you'll
be asking to become a spam relay.

> >FEATURE(relay_entire_domain)dnl


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