From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 11:17:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C116B14FED for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 11:17:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA13306; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19991219141354.00957160@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:33 -0500 To: Jim Conner , Martin Welk From: John Subject: Wrapping Sendmail [was: Re: DNS Setup] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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