RE: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers

> After pulling my hair and kicking the wall for hours.  (I came up with
> conclusion that I should get of this business! NA JUST KIDDING).
> 1) I came up with the conclusion that sendmail 8.11.6 works; when
> sendmail.cf is generated by "linuxconf". My users can send and receive
> e-mails with out any problems. At that point it does not matter what the
> contents of /etc/mail/access file is; they could be all REJECTs or
> RELAYs or anything in between (yes I generated access.db file by makemap
> hash and restarted sendmail). Further checking the relay test by
> relays.osirusoft.com company tells me that I have a beautiful open relay
> server (SPAMMERS: Come and use my server!).
>
> 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

:)D Your hero exists. His name is Wietse Venema, and he wrote Postfix.
Save your $$ for another book. Or a beer when you're done in an hour.
http://www.postfix.org

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696-6070