Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: yossman <yossman@yoss.canweb.net> To: John Preisler <john@helium.vapornet.com> Cc: dkelly@HiWAAY.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971015143937.8025P-100000@yoss.canweb.net> In-Reply-To: <199710150811.DAA03505@argon.vapornet.com>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, John Preisler wrote: > out of the ten billion anti-spam sendmail rulesets, could we at > least find one ruleset to at least deny off-site relaying? I mean its > the least we could do since sendmail is enabled by default [which is, > in my book, not such a good idea.] i have to agree at least with the off-site relay ruleset. i am trying to hack one together now using some stuff i found off the Net, but it would be awesome to have sendmail default behaviour be NOT to allow off-site relaying .. i read a quote recently in the majordomo config files, '... in today's increasingly imbecelic Internet...'. that sums up entirely why i think sendmail shouldn't relay ANY traffic not coming from the box it resides on by default. yossman ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Yossarian Holmberg (yossman) yossman@yossman.org System Administrator, National Online http://www.yossman.org/ my statements are my own, not my employer's -- i do not speak for them. '... and if i die, before i learn to speak .. can money pay for all the days i've lived awake but half asleep?' -- Primitive Radio Gods, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"
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