From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 23 13:23:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06801 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from theorion.net (viper.iadfw.net [207.136.36.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06794 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orion@theorion.net) Received: from localhost (orion@localhost) by theorion.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA02021; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:23:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:23:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Orion To: Jim Mock cc: David , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with mail server... In-Reply-To: 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 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