Relay access denied;

I wonder if someone could help ?

I'm trying to configure postfix on Suse 9.1 and I'm having problems. I can
read my mail (via kmail on another machine and even from iMac) but I can't
send any mail. The moment I try to send anything I get error "Relay access
denied;". I took main.cf file from another machine, that I know works, and
did diff on it and I couldn't find any difference apart from hostname. Yet
that machine works and mine does not. Could someone point me in the right
direction I'm lost as to what may be the resone for this error.

Thanks - Tom

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one6699@hotmail.com (Mr Ter) wrote in <2r64jlF166va1U1@uni-berlin.de>:

>I wonder if someone could help ?
>
>I'm trying to configure postfix on Suse 9.1 and I'm having problems. I
>can read my mail (via kmail on another machine and even from iMac) but
>I can't send any mail. The moment I try to send anything I get error
>"Relay access denied;". I took main.cf file from another machine, that I
>know works, and did diff on it and I couldn't find any difference apart
>from hostname. Yet that machine works and mine does not. Could someone
>point me in the right direction I'm lost as to what may be the resone
>for this error.
>
>Thanks - Tom
>

Did you fill in main.cf the variable
mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
or similar?

Regards,
Nils

Nils Gehrig wrote:

> one6699@hotmail.com (Mr Ter) wrote in <2r64jlF166va1U1@uni-berlin.de>:
>
>>I wonder if someone could help ?
>>
>>I'm trying to configure postfix on Suse 9.1 and I'm having problems. I
>>can read my mail (via kmail on another machine and even from iMac) but
>>I can't send any mail. The moment I try to send anything I get error
>>"Relay access denied;". I took main.cf file from another machine, that I
>>know works, and did diff on it and I couldn't find any difference apart
>>from hostname. Yet that machine works and mine does not. Could someone
>>point me in the right direction I'm lost as to what may be the resone
>>for this error.
>>
>>Thanks - Tom
>>
>
> Did you fill in main.cf the variable
> mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
> or similar?
>
> Regards,
> Nils

Yes I did.
mynetworks = 192.168.123.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8

Tom

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Mr Ter schrieb:
> I wonder if someone could help ?
>
> I'm trying to configure postfix on Suse 9.1 and I'm having problems. I can
> read my mail (via kmail on another machine and even from iMac) but I can't
> send any mail. The moment I try to send anything I get error "Relay access
> denied;". I took main.cf file from another machine, that I know works, and
> did diff on it and I couldn't find any difference apart from hostname. Yet
> that machine works and mine does not. Could someone point me in the right
> direction I'm lost as to what may be the resone for this error.
>
> Thanks - Tom
>
Probably you are sending your mail via smtp. Try sending via sendmail.
That could help you for the first. AFAIK sending via smtp needs some
more postfix typical configurations for example domain and sender
specifications and this is only helpful, if you want to handle any
restrictions.
Bye
Paul-Wilhelm

Paul-Wilhelm Hermsen wrote:

> Mr Ter schrieb:
>> I wonder if someone could help ?
>>
>> I'm trying to configure postfix on Suse 9.1 and I'm having problems. I
>> can
>> read my mail (via kmail on another machine and even from iMac) but I
>> can't send any mail. The moment I try to send anything I get error "Relay
>> access denied;". I took main.cf file from another machine, that I know
>> works, and did diff on it and I couldn't find any difference apart from
>> hostname. Yet that machine works and mine does not. Could someone point
>> me in the right direction I'm lost as to what may be the resone for this
>> error.
>>
>> Thanks - Tom
>>
> Probably you are sending your mail via smtp. Try sending via sendmail.
> That could help you for the first. AFAIK sending via smtp needs some
> more postfix typical configurations for example domain and sender
> specifications and this is only helpful, if you want to handle any
> restrictions.
> Bye
> Paul-Wilhelm

Thanks for your suggestion. I've solved the problem by specifying default
$mynetworks instead of 192.168.123.0/24.

Tom

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