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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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