Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:33 -0500 From: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Wrapping Sendmail [was: Re: DNS Setup] Message-ID: <4.1.19991219141354.00957160@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991215235821.009f4610@mail.enterit.com> References: <19991216060402.B87366@theatre.sax.de> <4.1.19991215230917.009e45a0@mail.udel.edu> <4.1.19991215230917.009e45a0@mail.udel.edu>
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>See below... > >> > I have sendmail allowed in /etc/hosts.allow. I have mx records in all the > ^^^^^^^^^^ >Sendmail doesn't usually get wrapped with tcp_wrappers (ie >/etc/hosts.[allow|deny]) so I don't think you need to worry about putting >that in there. It would depend on how sendmail was compiled too (if it has >the ability to use tcp_wrappers libs in the compilation) Running version 3.4, I thought that "wrapping" became an automatic feature, that no longer needed to be enabled? Also, the buliding of the system autocreated (I believe) an example of /etc/hosts.allow. I used that file as my basis, and in that file was: # Sendmail can help protect you against spammers and relay-rapers sendmail : localhost : allow sendmail : ALL : allow So, I'm assuming that sendmail belongs within the hosts.allow file, unless I'm missing something? I guess, another question for this would be "how do you use this to prevent spammers/relay-rapers? Do you deny everyone other than your local host? Since if you do, won't that prevent all mail from coming in?" Thanks again all, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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