From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 08:23:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09586 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag2p11.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09575 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01069; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:24:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:24:20 +1000 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: David cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with mail server... In-Reply-To: <004201bdfe96$dc6814c0$fd2b0b0a@david-470cdt.hctg.saic.com> 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 Fri, 23 Oct 1998, David wrote: > I am trying to set up an SMTP/POP3 server on my BSD machine. I have > the domain name 'unet.tm' and would like to use this for my mail. I > need to secure this server so it cannot be used by spammers. Can > someone please help me, I looked at the man pages for sendmail and I > can't make heads or tails of any of it. > Read through the stuff at http://www.sendmail.org/. I also suggest upgrading to 8.9.1 if you haven't already.. it'll make it alot easier for you to secure it against spammers since relaying is turned off by default. Hope this helps, Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@phrantic.phear.net] : : st0rm Internet Services | 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