From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 15 17:53:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA22765 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from eyelab.psy.msu.edu (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22746 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 17:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Received: from default (pm246-00.dialip.mich.net [35.9.9.65]) by eyelab.psy.msu.edu (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA18412; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:46:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710160146.VAA18412@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> X-Sender: root@eyelab.msu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro 4.0 Beta 1 (build 175) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:50:48 -0400 To: dkelly@hiwaay.net From: Gary Schrock Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710160024.TAA26079@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <199710152202.SAA17675@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:24 PM 10/15/97 -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: >Restricting sendmail to only deliver messages originated on its host is a >good default. Then in the situation for remote POP users we need >documentation on how to lessen the restrictions. Open it up for specific >hosts, or entire domains. The current promiscuous configuration is asking >for trouble at hosts that have full time net connections. While I wouldn't mind seeing the default more restrictive, host only seems excessive to me. Something along the lines of domain only like was suggested here by someone else sounds good to me. (Heck, if it was changed to default to host only I'd probably sooner change the machine I bounce my mail off of before trying to loosen the restriction in sendmail, the campus servers here aren't too restrictive). >Is POP3 able to run bi-directionally with clients such as Eudora? I've not >seen that option in my Eudora documentation. Maybe its time to move on to >IMAP? Hmm, I thought it used to, but I'm not sure it does anymore. (I have to admit I've never used it like that, so I don't *know* that it did that. I'm not to sure about the idea of IMAP myself. I started playing with the beta implementation that's in the new beta of eudora, and I'm not sure I like IMAP. Didn't seem to be real friendly to use (especially for someone like me that uses eudora to sort my mail). Course, the support is still early, so maybe it'll get better. Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu