Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:12:34 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Periodic mails Message-ID: <3D187A52.3070203@rambo.simx.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206251529380.5181-100000@gren.cs.umu.se>
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Paul Everlund wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jan Grant wrote: *snip* >>In which case, NO, YES, NO, YES. And then the answer to your question is >>(pretty closely) yes. Only localhost can originate mail; you should >>still be able to target mail to an offsite address; you need to fiddle >>with sendmail if you want to turn that facility off. > > > Thanks again for your reply! > > I'm not using mail on any of my FreeBSD boxes, so I lack some > understanding how it all works. I at least do not want anyone > to use my boxes for relaying spam mail. > > And as English isn't my native language I must ask this to be > sure I understand you correct, and I only need a yes or no... > > With the proposed setup, "NO", "YES", "NO", "YES", no one from > the outside can relay mail via my box? > > With the proposed setup, I can only send mail from localhost? > > With the setup, am I allowed to send mail to other computers > than localhost? (Don't want this if I can avoid it.) > > If the answers are "correct", "yes" and "no" it's the setup I > want. :-) > > Thanks once more for your answers. > > Best regards, > Paul If it helps, feel free to email me directly and explain your exact problem and wishes in swedish and I will try to help you out. Swedish is my native language and Im fairly experienced in the ways of Sendmail so Im sure we can figure it out. Basically, using sendmail_enable=NO should allow you to send mail from localhost, but not from any other host. This is probably what you want. As for stopping people from relaying spam through you, newer versions of sendmail has pretty tight relay settings by default so I dont think you need to worry. If you want to, I could help you test it and/or explain how to adjust the relay rules yourself. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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