On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Andrew Smith wrote:
> says to comment it out (and found the README
> comment a week later :-)
Still looking for the README with any relevant statement.
> The makefile in /etc/mail also helps :-)
The Makefile in /etc/mail simply hashes whatever is there. Nothing about
the subject at hand.
>
> I did a full install of 7.1 (and I am sure many
> newbies out there like to do that too ... it gives
> you all the software available :-) and every day I
> get people trying to relay thought my 4 mail
> servers - so I can certainly see where RedHat is
> coming from when they close it off and expect you
> to read the README and open it up yourself.
The first thing I did was look for the README. See above.
> then maybe linux isn't the OS for you.
Huh. Maybe not. But then again, I'm responsible for several
publicly accessible servers, have been running webservers & mail servers
for several years, use sendmail & procmail religiously, and none of *MY*
boxen have ever been rooted. Or used as a spam relay.
> WinHat????? Yeah right - get a reality check.
This IS a reality check. This is UNIX. Predicated on the idea that if you
don't know what you're doing, and the consequences thereof, you will soon
learn. The WinHat refers to the idea that you can safely install,
administer and use a server-capable OS without any education. That's
Redmond's theory, and all they've proved is that you can dumb down a
system till it's crippled.
My problem was not that I'm not familiar with sendmail, Linux, or RedHat.
Just the opposite. I use sendmail on a couple of different platforms, do
various Linux things for a living, and am RedHat certified. It literally
never entered my mind that ANYBODY's solution to open mail relays would
be to totally cripple sendmail. There are much better ways to do it.
> (and there is a real fun one there that I still
> haven't found any documentation for: if you want
> to move an email to a folder with spaces in the
> directory and/or filename then you must put a
> "\" before each space of the target dir/file in
> the .procmailrc file)
Um, you might look at the bash documentation. It'll explain that
whole '"\" before an embedded whitespace' thingie for you.
See ya later.
Doc
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