[2314] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Email Hack: Help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Neulinger)
Thu Jul 4 18:07:49 1996
To: Steff.Watkins@Bristol.ac.uk (Steff Watkins)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:12:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Nathan Neulinger" <nneul@umr.edu>
CC: WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Assuming that the systems that have email daemons are Unix-based, you can
> use the 'hosts.allow' and 'hosts.deny' mechanism.
>
> Just add all valid hosts to the '/etc/hosts.allow' file and then put 'all'
> in the '/etc/hosts.deny' file against the 'smtp' entry.
I hope you plan on doing alot of typing, because unless you are receiving
all your mail from one host, you are going o have to add every internet
site that could send mail to that file.
-- Nathan
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