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Re: Protecting sendmail?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Fidell)
Thu Nov 7 19:46:38 1996

From: James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:47:34 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <m0vLd5r-001FwkC@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 7, 96 02:38:37 pm
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Marcelo Dantas wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Is there any configuration that can be made to sendmail so it
> will only accept connection from machines that belongs to my
> domain.

I believe that there is some documentation at the back of the
O'Reilly "Sendmail" book which discusses how this can be done.

> The problem is that anyone, from anywhere, can log to it and
> generate a "fake mail".

That's probably a case for better logging rather than preventing
access.

James.
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