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Re: Protecting sendmail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Baverstock)
Fri Nov 8 13:09:09 1996
From: Tim Baverstock <warwick@mmm.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:55:19 GMT
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James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk> wrote:
> I'm considering turning off incoming sendmail altogether on a number
> of our machines...
Oooh, those ominous ... dots. :)
Is there anything particularly wrong with this? Sendmail is just a service,
much like http, and one doesn't run http on all machines just to accommodate
those people who try to web to arbitrary machines in one's domain.
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