From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 16:24:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag1p10.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19772 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:24:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA00248; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:23:32 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:23:31 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: "Alain G. Fabry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spamming In-Reply-To: <01a201be0e4e$50887270$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > www.sendmail.org talks about the anti-spam configuration. > My questions is : > How do you find out if somebody is using your system to relay their mail? > Thanks, > One way you'll know is that you'll be bombarded with complaints that spammers are relaying through you. :-) There's a test to check if your mailer is vulnerable at http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html. If you have sendmail 8.9.1 installed, relaying is disabled by default, but if you're running lower versions, you'll have to add the rules to disable it. Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@phrantic.phear.net] : : Phear Networks | web: http://www.phear.net/ : : A franchise of Triax, Inc. | ----------------------------- : : Web Site Design & Hosting | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message