From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 00:58:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27110 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain-work.iafrica.com (chain-work.iafrica.com [196.31.1.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27105 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03397; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:58:44 +0200 (SAT) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:58:44 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@chain-work.iafrica.com Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: David Langford cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uninvited usage for sendmail In-Reply-To: <199704040000.OAA28735@caliban.dihelix.com> Message-ID: X-Alternate-Address: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-PGP-Fingerprint: FF F9 1C B8 39 06 1E CD 60 4C E8 57 2D A3 46 E7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm including this reply to questions@freebsd.org because I thought it might be useful to everyone else. Any further queries, please direct to me. On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, David Langford wrote: >Amazingly cool. Thank you. Sure! >>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 56 Mar 25 14:40 LocalNames >> >>This is a file which contains all machines which we allow >>to relay through us - i.e. they can send mail to people outside >>the domain This is people who can basically use our SMTP server. So, for example, if I put your domain in here, you could use my SMTP port to mail anyone you like. >>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 24 Mar 25 14:40 relayto >> >>This is a file which contains all the machines for whom we retain >>or accept mail. Usually for virtual domains, or if we're the backup >>MX for someone These are machines for whom we relay mail. Not really used if you don't hold mail for or do mail forwaring for anyone. --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] PGP Key [finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]