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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:34:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        Tim Moony <timm@uniqsite.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Uninvited usage for sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970403093338.13766D-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970402155316.18048A-100000@cedb>

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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Dan Busarow wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Tim Moony wrote:
> > I noticed someone (not any of my my user) used the mail system to send out
> > stuff. 
> > 
> > Is there any way to ban this uninvited usage? 
> 
> Get sendmail 8.8.5 (seems stable now, been out for a couple of months)
> and install the check_* rules.  check_relay is the one you want.
> 

One note on this sort of thing.  I have had to deal with sites who didnt
do this well - where due to mx records, my mailer would try to send to
userid@machine1.someplace.com via mail.someplace.com and
mail.someplace.com would complain I was trying to relay - 




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