Rob, all...
I only allow mail to be sent from my domain, if your ont conencted to my
domain, then you cannot send mail, this is the same policy that many isp's
(including EFN) have addopted. There are ways you an tighten it up even
more (i have, but i wont go into details...) Check out "trusted Users",
also check out sendmail.org. Many admins out there will tell you sendmail
is not secure, and should not be used... rather you should use qmail, I
say use what you like, make it seucre.
Jamie
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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently got mutt/sendmail/fetchmail all working. It's kind of nice to have a
>"light" program
> to do email with, even if you lose some of the niceties like reading HTML email. So
>I think I may
> keep this configuration for a while.
>
> I was wondering:
>
> While it's probably very unlikely to be abused since I'm on a dialup, how can I
>protect my
> sendmail from being a relay for spammers? Or how can I check if it's open or not? I
>looked at
> /etc/inetd.conf and the only line uncommented is
>
> auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -i -e
>
> Now I just have to figure out procmail. :)
>
> -Rob.
>
