From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 16 07:44:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA02968 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from helium.vapornet.com (root@helium.vapornet.com [208.202.126.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA02886 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@helium.vapornet.com) Received: from argon.vapornet.com (vapornet.xnet.com [205.243.141.107]) by helium.vapornet.com (8.8.7/VaporServer-v3.0+SpamNot) with ESMTP id JAA13959; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: by argon.vapornet.com (8.8.7/VaporClient-1.1) id JAA05330; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710161442.JAA05330@argon.vapornet.com> From: John Preisler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "A. Karl Heller" Cc: root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu (Gary Schrock), don@PartsNow.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? In-Reply-To: <199710161204.IAA24287@daria.cdnow.com> References: <199710160121.VAA18333@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> <199710161204.IAA24287@daria.cdnow.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html#check_rcpt works pretty well, too. -jrp A. Karl Heller writes: > > Why not set it so that the default behavior is to only relay email > that is to or from the domain the server is in? > > > > At 02:58 PM 10/15/97 -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > > >Gary Schrock wrote: > > >>=20 > > >> At 02:42 PM 10/15/97 -0400, you wrote: > > >> >think sendmail shouldn't relay ANY traffic not coming from the box it > > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0^^^=20 > > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0= > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0What if we make that 'domain= > > '? > > >> >resides on by default. > > >>=20 > > >> Hmm, wouldn't that make things painful for those of us using pop mail > > >> clients that use smtp to bounce our mail off the server to send? =A0I = > > don't > > >> think this is really *that* unusual of an arrangement. > > >>=20 > > > > > >Would that be a suitable default? > > > I have to say that sounds better, although then we come down to how easy = > > it > > would be to make it look like the mail is coming from inside the domain. > > I'm afraid I haven't read enough of the anti-spam stuff to know how it > > would check that. > > > Gary Schrock > > root@eyelab.msu.edu > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A. Karl Heller | Dead men don't bleed... > Senior Systems Engineer | but if you step on them right, they ooze. > CDnow Inc. | Everyone needs belief in something. > http://cdnow.com | I believe I'll have another beer. >