It works. Thanks a million Steve!
I did notice something odd though, possibly a bug in the Debian package
dialog boxes. I'll write it up here in case anyone else has a similar
experience.
To get dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config to work I had to appended :!* to
the end of the allowed relay ip address list in the networks accept
relay dialog box.
Example: 192.168.0/24:10.1.1.0:!* works but 192.168.0/24:10.1.1.0 does
not
When I did not append :!* to the end of the line defining acceptable
relay IP addresses , dpkg-reconfigure would accept the entry, but
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated would not contain a directive to
accept 10.1.1.0/24. However, running dpkg-reconfigure again, 10.1.1.0/24
would still show up in the dialog box used to choose which ip addresses
to accept relay mail from. Once I added the :!* to the end of the line,
then 10.1.1.0/24 showed up in /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.
I only stumbled across this because I ran dpkg-reconfigure on a server
that worked, and discovered the :!*.
Ben Carter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org]
On
> Behalf Of Steven Wayne
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:11 AM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Problem relaying from local subnet
>
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:53:53AM -0800, Ben Carter wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 08:53:53 -0800
> > From: "Ben Carter" <BenC@???>
> > To: <exim-users@???>
> > Subject: [exim] Problem relaying from local subnet
> >
> > I have a Debian box kernel version 2.4 on which I have just
installed
> > exim4 from apt-get stable. I have also installed sa-exim to filter
spam.
> > Inbound email works fine, but users on the local subnet cannot send
> > mail. They get a 550 relay not permitted error. For the life of me
> > cannot figure out how to tell exim that it is ok to relay from the
10.x
> > subnet. I have read as much of TFM as I could find online (WIKI this
> > mailing list, numerous Google searches, etc.) and can't find an
answer.
> > I tried using the directive relay_from_hosts in my exim.conf file. I
am
> > running in monolithic file mode (or at least I told Debian to
install
> > exim4 with the monolithic file. I tried renaming the
/etc/exim4/conf.d
> > directory to verify that the conf.d was not in use and received
errors
> > launching exim4 from the Debian start script. However, when I
enabled
> > sa-exim, I did so with a command in the monolithic file. Confused?
Me
> > too).
> >
> >
>
> Could I suggest you read also the README.Debian.gz file, it's in the
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ directory.
>
> >
> > Here is the error:
> >
> >
> >
> > 2005-12-06 11:47:35 H=(principal) [10.1.1.56]
F=<user@???>
> > rejected RCPT <user@???>: relay not permitted
> >
>
> For this you should update /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and run
> update-exim4.conf or run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and answer the
> questions.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried to edit the existing relay_from_hosts command but that
didn't
> > work:
> >
> >
> >
> > .ifndef MAIN_RELAY_NETS
> >
> > MAIN_RELAY_NETS = DEBCONFrelay_netsDEBCONF
> >
> > .endif
> >
> > hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 10.1.1.56 ::::1 :
> > MAIN_RELAY_NETS
> >
>
> Don't do this.
>
> >
> >
> > Then I tried putting it in the config file "bare":
> >
> >
> >
> > relay_from_hosts = localhost : 10.1.1.56 :
>
> Don't do this either.
>
>
> > This is probably very easy, but I've been banging my head against it
for
> > a day now, and am at my wits end. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> It is easy, once you read the right readme files.
>
> Steven.
>
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