Re: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:19 pm, gti617 wrote:

> 2) When I create sendmail.cf file by "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc >
> /etc/sendmail.cf" command. Non of my pop or normal users can send or
> receive e-mails. But the relay problem would go away ( My server will
> not relay) Using the following code.
>
> So where am I right now?  No where. I am headed to a bookstore. I am
> where I started from.  I wish someone from RedHat would be HERO and
> read this message and solve the problem of a lot of People.  Sincerely
> -- Kevin
>

> dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device
> 127.0.0.1 dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if
> you want dnl to accept email over the network.
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

Sendmail is listening on the loopback interface only. Mail sent from 
anywhere else will not be accepted.  Comment out the above line, and 
regenerate sendmail.cf.

- -- 
- -Michael

pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
- --
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+ZtB5n/07WoAb/SsRAuA+AJ0RU/eF0U8CHvTIY6iPc2qhyKL4yACgpw5v
V8ZHruYogegdiIOK1c8IGSU=
=DqeA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----