Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:04:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Karl Heller" <heller@daria.cdnow.com> To: root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu (Gary Schrock) Cc: don@PartsNow.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? Message-ID: <199710161204.IAA24287@daria.cdnow.com> In-Reply-To: <199710160121.VAA18333@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> from "Gary Schrock" at Oct 15, 97 08:25:07 pm
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Why not set it so that the default behavior is to only relay email that is to or from the domain the server is in? > At 02:58 PM 10/15/97 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > >Gary Schrock wrote: > >>=20 > >> At 02:42 PM 10/15/97 -0400, you wrote: > >> >think sendmail shouldn't relay ANY traffic not coming from the box it > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0^^^=20 > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0What if we make that 'domain= > '? > >> >resides on by default. > >>=20 > >> Hmm, wouldn't that make things painful for those of us using pop mail > >> clients that use smtp to bounce our mail off the server to send? =A0I = > don't > >> think this is really *that* unusual of an arrangement. > >>=20 > > > >Would that be a suitable default? > I have to say that sounds better, although then we come down to how easy = > it > would be to make it look like the mail is coming from inside the domain. > I'm afraid I haven't read enough of the anti-spam stuff to know how it > would check that. > Gary Schrock > root@eyelab.msu.edu -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Karl Heller | Dead men don't bleed... Senior Systems Engineer | but if you step on them right, they ooze. CDnow Inc. | Everyone needs belief in something. http://cdnow.com | I believe I'll have another beer.
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