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Old 01-31-2009, 03:22 AM   #1
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how to give access to user for sending mail in sendmail


i want few users to have access for sending mails in sendmail and others not. please help me
 
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you need to provide more useful information than that... what kind of architectures are you using? Do you need some form of authentication? By default anyone on a local machine can pass email into sendmail to be forwarded.
 
Old 02-05-2009, 01:12 AM   #3
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restrict some users from sending mails

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you need to provide more useful information than that... what kind of architectures are you using? Do you need some form of authentication? By default anyone on a local machine can pass email into sendmail to be forwarded.
i am working on rhel 5. i have configured sendmail on it. it allows all the users to send and recieve mail. i want to restrict some users from doing so.. can you help me. thank you
 
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Again, where are these users? what software are they using? please provide as much information as possible.
 
  


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