A big fat red warning message would be appropriate I think.
Not everyone realises the risks ("who would find our server in a few
days anyway? I'll read the docs and secure it all up next week.")
Will.
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:58, Don Drake wrote:
> I guess I don't understand the use case of a new installation with a
> closed-relay not sending email.
>
> At least add some more verbiage to the documentation in the SMTPRELAY.TAB
> mentioning an example line showing how to make it a closed relay. It's only
> mentioned in one other section of the doc, saying to adjust it to make it a
> closed relay.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Davide Libenzi
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:00 PM
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> Subject: [xmail] Re: Default Open Relay
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Don Drake wrote:
>
> > Can you update the default distribution to not have
> "0.0.0.0"[TAB]"0.0.0.0"
> > as the default value for smtprelay.tab?
> >
> >
> > It makes no sense to distribute the default configuration of the server as
> > an open relay. I forgot to change that file on a second server,
> fortunately
> > only a few emails slipped by and I was watching my log files.
>
> I'll be overfloweth with messages like "Why XMail does not send emails?"
> Let me think about it ...
>
>
>
> - Davide
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