From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 26 09:50:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626E316A400 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 09:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2722013C447 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 09:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l4Q9oKBS058986; Sat, 26 May 2007 02:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Maxim Khitrov" , Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 02:51:32 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750705211814p71597e9nb18005349f222c84@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Sat, 26 May 2007 02:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: RE: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 09:50:23 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Maxim Khitrov > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow >=20 > however, I had a feeling that it was jail-related. But what about the > hosts.allow problem? I can run a firewall, of course, but hosts.allow > seems like a more efficient way of doing the same thing. I've already > got it configured and working with sshd, so I see no reason why > sendmail doesn't want to work the same way. >=20 You said earlier that your sendmail was compiled with tcp wrapper support. How exactly did you go about doing this and installing it? In any case, since your not going to be using sendmail much, if your that paranoid I would suggest you simply disable it and run it out of inetd. Then use the usual tcpd method (in the man page) to run inetd. Ted