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
>
>
>
>
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