From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 16:26:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AC537B76A for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00750; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:20:48 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:20:48 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Daniel Mahoney, Systems Admin" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail Processes Message-ID: <20000427112048.D462@jonc.itouch.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message