Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:23:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Orion <orion@theorion.net> To: Jim Mock <jim@phrantic.phear.net> Cc: David <david@unet.tm>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with mail server... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810231519040.2005-100000@theorion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810240121500.1066-100000@oz.phear.net>
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And make sure to overwrite your old /etc/sendmail.fc with the one located in the source directory of sendmail-8.9.1/cf/cf/ for freebsd. If you keep your old one, sendmail will still relay! (Talking from experience, and thanks to everyone who pointed this out) Then create /etc/sendmail.cw with a list of the domains you want to accept mail for. - Mikael Cederberg "15 minutes to set up Bind, 4 hours of setting up WinNT DNS manager without success. Can we say fdisk?" On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Jim Mock wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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