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Subject: RE: Open Relay? From: "Robert Friberg" <robban@it-konsult.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:13:50 +0200 there's a switch in linuxconf <shudder> in the servers/mail delivery > system/basic section (or something like that) entitled "enable SPAM > control" or something like that (pretty vague - but not infront of > computer at the moment) that will close your mail relay so you can > get off the orbs blacklist... > > HTH - dan. Thanks, I shut the daemon down for now, I'm just sending messages anyway. I thought relaying was disabled by default, I quote http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html "As of sendmail version 8.9, forwarding of SMTP messages is not permitted by default." and "rpm -q sendmail" tells me "sendmail-8.9.3-10" === Subject: RE: Open Relay? From: John Aldrich <john@chattanooga.net> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:45:24 -0400 On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Robert Friberg wrote: > > Thanks, > > I shut the daemon down for now, I'm just sending messages anyway. > > I thought relaying was disabled by default, I quote > http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html > > "As of sendmail version 8.9, forwarding of SMTP messages is > not permitted by default." > > > and "rpm -q sendmail" tells me "sendmail-8.9.3-10" > Yet, if you go to orbs.org, you'll see that the REAL secure version is 8.10. Anything earlier has bugs that are exploitable for spammers. ===