Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:28:05 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, FreeBSD-ISP <FreeBSD-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail relaying Message-ID: <199906262130.RAA09035@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906261527260.53344-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Anyone who subscribes to ORBs isnt worth sending mail to anyway, so dont worry about it. One of my (potential) suppliers lost a big order because they kept bouncing my emails *shrug*, I bought from someone else. Some college weenie thought he was doing them a favor and it probably cost them 5 times his salary. DB At 03:32 PM 6/26/99 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >I thought you folks here on this list would know more than most about >sendmail, so while I'm not an ISP (not today, not on this personal >machine problem) I think this is the right audience. > >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. > >Help! > >----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- >Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data >chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. >213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | >Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. >(301) 220-2114 | >----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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