have you tried yanking out relaying based on mx and just adding the IPs of
the machines you want to relay for in your /etc/mail/access file?
if you try that, don't forget to do a makemap on the file afterwards.
and uh, you may have to bump sendmail too.

=jay

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, John Hunter wrote:

> Why am I posting from yahoo, eh?  Glad you asked...
>
> Yesterday the university sysadmin guys called me and
> informed me that my
> mailserver was being used as a relay.  I plugged most
> of that hole.
> Then this morning the harddrive on my router up and
> died on me.  I had
> a tar backup, but apparently forgot the -a flag so my
> symlinks were
> all fucked up.  But now the router is back, sendmail
> is restored, and
> the day is almost done.  That's just some background
> -- needed to vent
> a minute.
>
> Everything seems to be working except for 2 residual
> problems, both
> related to sendmail. That's  where you guys come in.
>
> To plug the relay hole I upgraded to sendmail 8.12.6,
> which is
> supposed to have saner defaults than older versions.
> Here's my setup.
>
> My mailserver 192.168.1.4 named mother.paradise.lost
> is behind a
> firewall 128.135.97.130 named nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu.
>  The mail
> server serves the entire 192.168.1.* LAN.  For
> historical reasons, we
> still use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for our email
> addresses.  That
> name has it's mx bit set to nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu.
>
> Here's my sendmail.mc
>
> divert(0)dnl
> VERSIONID(`$Id: generic-linux.mc,v 8.1 1999/09/24
> 22:48:05 gshapiro Exp $')
> FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(`ace.bsd.uchicago.edu')
> FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
>
> OSTYPE(linux)dnl
> DOMAIN(generic)dnl
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
>
> Cwlocalhost.localdomain
> Cwace.bsd.uchicago.edu
> Cwnitace.bsd.uchicago.edu
>
>
>
> I have 2 problems: I can't send mail out with the
> sender name
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Apparently relaying is
> being denied from
> the LAN (the paradise.lost domain).  Also, the
> security admin ran
> smtprc and informed me that even after the upgrade, I
> am still
> vulnerable to some relay exploits.
>
> I used to have this in sendmail.mc:
>
> FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
>
> which I think is what enabled my relaying from inside
> the LAN to
> work.  Unfortunately, I think it is also what allowed
> the spammers to
> abuse me.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
>
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