Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:34:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> Cc: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrapping Sendmail [was: Re: DNS Setup] Message-ID: <86563.945689682@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:33 EST." <4.1.19991219141354.00957160@mail.udel.edu>
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:33 EST, John wrote: > So, I'm assuming that sendmail belongs within the hosts.allow file, unless > I'm missing something? You're not missing anything. Since 3.2-RELEASE, sendmail has been linked against libwrap, thus using TCP Wrappers when considering incoming connections. > I guess, another question for this would be "how do you use this to > prevent spammers/relay-rapers? You don't, really. > Do you deny everyone other than your local host? Since if you do, > won't that prevent all mail from coming in?" No and yes. :-) Using TCP Wrappers for sendmail is only really useful for special cases, for example for relay-only hosts that don't accept incoming connections, or hosts that only accept incoming connections from a limited number of mail gateways. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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