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Re: Protecting sendmail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Chalef)
Thu Nov 7 19:06:35 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 01:04:46 +0200 (SAT)
From: Daniel Chalef <danielc@iafrica.com>
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> Is there any configuration that can be made to sendmail so it
> will only accept connection from machines that belongs to my
> domain.
>
> The problem is that anyone, from anywhere, can log to it and
> generate a "fake mail".
Apparently the newest version of sendmail can do this, but don't quote me
on this. Otherwise a mailer called Exim will help you. We moved to it
after somebody decided to hardcode our main mail server into a widely
available spam mailer.
It works excellently. It allows you to setup access lists of varying
degrees, is incredibly flexible, fast and powerful. It is extremely good
in applications such as primary mx for a large domain, such as an ISP.
Cheers
Daniel
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Daniel Chalef danielc@iafrica.com
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