From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 26 12:49:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FABF14CED for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA76672; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:48:57 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199906261948.VAA76672@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: sendmail relaying In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Jun 26, 1999 03:32:11 pm" To: chuckr@picnic.mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:48:57 +0200 (SAT) Cc: FreeBSD-isp@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-ISP) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I just got a mail from ORBS (http://www.orbs.org/) telling me I'm an > open mail relay on my home machine. I run current here, no mods, and > since I thought that sendmail 8.9.3 came with relaying off by default, I > didn't need to do anything to stop it. > > I checked my machine by logging into a different one, and sending mail > to myself at a 3rd host, using my home machine (picnic.mat.net) as > relay. Worked fine, but I was expecting ahd hoping for it to fail. > > Can someone tell me what I'm missing? All the stuff I can find on > sendmail relay configuration is to carefully open up relaying (via lists > to allow or deny some users) but I think I want to deny the universe. > Well, looking in the header of this mail, it looks like your machine (picnic.mat.net) is running the latest sendmail (8.9.3) but still with an very old config file (8.8.5). Most of the anti-relaying is actually in the config file. So just upgrade your config file. :-) --------- Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA60703 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:32:11 -0400 (EDT) -------- John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message