[LUAU] SMTP/Sendmail security question

Michael & Diana Hasse hassem001 at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Feb 20 17:16:11 PST 1999


Thanks Rob.
I'll give that a try and see what happens.
Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> bbraun at sparcy.synack.net
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 3:04 PM
> To: luau at luau.hi.net
> Subject: Re: [LUAU] SMTP/Sendmail security question 
> 
> 
> 
> I believe sendmail 8.9.x is distributed with a default rule to
> look in /etc/mail/relay-domains or /etc/relay-domains or something
> for what domains to relay for.  If the file does not exist, it 
> relays for everyone(I think).  I havn't used a default install
> of sendmail in quite a long time, so I'm not sure.  I know 
> this is a default line:
> FR-o /etc/mail/relay-domains
> 
> and if you put the reverse name mappings in this file, you'll
> only relay for them.  I have synack.net in mine, since all my
> internal machines reverse map to something.synack.net
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> On Saturday, Feb 1999 at 14:35:10 "Michael & Diana Hasse" wrote: 
>  | I have this question about SMTP/Sendmail,
>  | How can I configure my linux box to only relay mail from my 
> inside network
>  | of 192.168.2.0?  I have looked through my /var/log/mail file and have
>  | noticed spam being bounced off my linux box.  I dont want to 
> turn sendmail
>  | off or disable the SMTP service, just limit what network 
> addresses can use
>  | it.
>  | 
>  | Thanks
>  | Michael Hasse
>  | 
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