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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:20:37 -0800
From:      "Jeremy A. Mates" <jmates@sial.org>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: relaying mail from DHCP clients
Message-ID:  <20020122172037.GA77721@darkness.sial.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020122111816.5e70b6ff.resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org>
References:  <20020122101115.P25912-100000@camelia.dnt.ro> <002701c1a328$9aac7fa0$2e020a0a@mti.itb.ac.id> <20020122112913.N58243@heresy.dreamflow.nl> <20020122111816.5e70b6ff.resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org>

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* Chris Thomas <resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org> [2002-01-22 08:19-0800]:
> it is wise to only allow clients from inside your LAN to relay mail,
> preventing your server from being used as a relay by spammers (note
> that you can specify an IP range in /etc/mail/access). open mail
> relays are a problem, and they can get you blacklisted fairly easily
> (www.ordb.org). pop3 authentication is a viable solution, but can be
> somewhat difficult to ipmlement with sendmail.

Or, you can use SMTP AUTH (and/or STARTTLS) if pop-before-smtp does
not appeal to you:

http://www.sial.org/talks/smtpauth-starttls/

-- 
Jeremy Mates                                        http://www.sial.org/

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