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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 01:22:31 -0700
From:      "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov>
To:        manek@ecst.csuchico.edu, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <s73f6f6e.095@usgs.gov>

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]>>> Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> 5/16/99 3:57:51 PM >>>
]Sameer R. Manek wrote:
]
]> I believe it is..
]
]You are mistaken.
]
]> if you recieve an email from foo@evil.com,
]
]The MAIL FROM command is not used to determine whether a host can relay or
]not. Sendmail uses the address of the connecting host to determine whether
]a host can relay or not.

      <snip>

By default relaying is turned of in 8.9x, for the straight poop see 
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk-89f.html#RELAYING
there are also suggestions for granting it (relaying) if you want.

...when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809



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