"FLR" == Florian La Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FLR> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:31:11PM -0700, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote:
>> You know what you're talking about.
>>
>> My RH 7.1 sendmail.mc has only two changes from the installation version:
>>
>> 1. Uncomment the DAEMON_OPTIONS line
>> 2. Comment out the FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains') line
>>
>> and yet when I telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org, guess what?
>> [... 17 tests ...]
>> System appeared to reject relay attempts
>>
>> and it both receives and send email just fine.
FLR> It allows anybody on the Internet to connect to your machine. This is not
FLR> needed for most of the Red Hat customers, so we want to disable this for
FLR> additional security.
"Connect to my machine"? How? You can telnet to port 25, but all you can
do is talk ESMTP. Is that a security risk? All the other ports I have
daemons listening to have nothing to do with sendmail.
--- Vladimir
Vladimir G. Ivanovic http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir
2770 Cowper St. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2447 +1 650 678 8014
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