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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:20:48 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        "Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin" <danm@firestorm2000.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail Processes
Message-ID:  <20000427112048.D462@jonc.itouch.co.nz>

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:28:13AM -0400, Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem with sendmail, and I've seen this discussed on
> the list before...
> 
> Sendmail likes to start a whole bunch of processes with the same IP (I
> assume this might be because of a spammer of some sort), as it mostly
> comes from dialup IPs, and users who have no real reason to be relaying
> mail through our system.  However, the processes stack up (and today, ate
> 200 megs of swap on me).

If they should not be relaying, how about setting up /etc/mail/access
to prevent unauthourised relaying? Check out
	/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README
for more details.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>


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