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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:33:41 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>
Cc:        FreeBsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sendmail: open-relay
Message-ID:  <4B41FC45.8030207@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1262613595.9547.28.camel@pukruppa.net>
References:  <1262613595.9547.28.camel@pukruppa.net>

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> BTW. I have read somewhere, there might be problems with hostnames like=

> pukruppa.net, since they would allow to relay all mails from .net ?!?

I'm trying to remember where this appears.  I remember vaguely what
you're referring to, and yes, it's a theoretical possibility if you
combine a name like that with domain name based access controls.  Aha!
Found it.  It's this item in the 'FEATURE' section of=20
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README

relay_entire_domain
                This option allows any host in your domain as defined by
                class {m} to use your server for relaying.  Notice: make
                sure that your domain is not just a top level domain,
                e.g., com.  This can happen if you give your host a name
                like example.com instead of host.example.com.

So, unless you have an entry saying FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')
somewhere in your sendmail configuration, this will not hurt you. =20

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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