Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:20:26 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: sendmail default run state Message-ID: <20000922222026.A33410@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200009222010.e8MKAv117254@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:10:57PM -0600 References: <20000922215616.A33103@mithrandr.moria.org> <200009222010.e8MKAv117254@orthanc.ab.ca>
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On Fri 2000-09-22 (14:10), Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > It sounds like you're describing a desktop client type environment > where you're running a local MUA that talks IMAP or POP to a central > server. Many of those MUAs want to inject mail through the local (to > the machine they are running on) SMTP server. By outright disabling > local SMTP service you run into POLA issues -- making this change > can break MUA functionality. The only one I can think of is fetchmail. What other ones behave like this? It is a good point, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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