From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 17 1:22:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from usgs.gov (igsmn002.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.41.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16E3E1545B for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 01:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) Received: from IGSMN-Message_Server by usgs.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 17 May 1999 01:22:54 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 01:22:31 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" To: manek@ecst.csuchico.edu, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ] ]>>> Ben Smithurst 5/16/99 3:57:51 PM >>> ]Sameer R. Manek wrote: ] ]> I believe it is.. ] ]You are mistaken. ] ]> if you recieve an email from foo@evil.com, ] ]The MAIL FROM command is not used to determine whether a host can relay = or ]not. Sendmail uses the address of the connecting host to determine = whether ]a host can relay or not. By default relaying is turned of in 8.9x, for the straight poop see=20 http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-89f.html#RELAYING there are also suggestions for granting it (relaying) if you want. ...when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty = quits the horizon. Thomas Paine 1737-1809 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message