On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:32:30PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hi, > I thought I would share my experience, with log_in_vain. :-)) > > When setting: > sendmail_flags="NO" > > Sendmail only listens to 127.0.0.1 > > I only need sendmail to send daily/weekly/monthly reports. Every time the security > report is sent, I have these entries too: > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49161 flags:0x02 > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49163 flags:0x02 > > There are not hundreds of entries of course only 6 or something depending of the > quantity of sent mails
If you add:
define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
to your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc and rebuild and reinstall you sendmail
config in the usual way, it will stop sendmail(8) trying to use the
ident service at all.
Cheers,
Matthew
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