RE: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers
"aaron namie" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma |
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>From: "Keith Mastin" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers >Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:39:41 -0500 (EST) > > > > 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 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >enigma-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enigma-list Exim, qmail? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail