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Re: Sendmail 8.8.x/8.9.x bugware

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Brown)
Mon Jan 18 11:58:52 1999

Date: 	Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:20:38 +1300
Reply-To: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
From: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
X-To:         Jens Hoffmann <jh@IVM.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <19990116222138.A11044@ivm.net>

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Jens Hoffmann wrote:

> Due to defined behaviour. Ever heard of UUCP and Bangpaths?

Bangpathing is evil juju from the dark ages which should be wiped out -
or at least moved out of the downtown area.

I got him to try relay testing via my sendmail 8.9.2 boxes. No relay occured.

Yes, I run uucp and various other forwarding schemes. There are a number
of sendmail.cf fixes mentioned in the Changelog which combat 8.9.1
relaying under specific circumstances.

AB

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