At 23:08 30/09/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>> It's not that difficult - only about 10 lines in each.
>> And now you have full control :)
>> I'll send you mine if you get stuck.
>>
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>Ive upgraded sendmail twice on two production mail servers (both bsd type
>machines). Ive done it before but the final .cf files I'm using now on
>those machines differ quite a bit from the default mandrake .cf file.
>
>Ive sort of used them as a template to build my own on this box and they
>behave differently when I check them against:
>
>www.abuse.net/relay.html
>
>The default .cf file that gets installed accordingly denies all relaying,
A Good Thing.
>the one I made from the bsd .mc file that I used, the relay test just
>hangs there. Have not had time to follow this up yet but hope to in the
>next day or so.
As long as your sendmail knows about it's own network and understands
that the machine you are sending from is local (and therefore legal), you
can retain the in built anti-relay measures.
The best way (imho) is to enter the IP addresses of allowed hosts
(or networks) into /etc/maildb/relay-domains (as specifed in sendmail.cf)
ttfn
nick@nexnix
