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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:40:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how to stop people from using my sendmail as a relay
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403124025.10860F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402185050.891A-100000@control.colossus.dyn.ml.org>

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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Donald Burr wrote:

> I'd like to prevent people on the Net from using my sendmail as a relay
> mailer (i.e. to prevent the spread of spam) -- I only want them to be able
> to use it if they're sending mail to a user somewhere on my domain.  Is
> there an easy way of doing this in sendmail (something I can
> add/change/delete in my sendmail.cf)?  I'd really rather not have to
> switch to qmail or something like that, if I can avoid it.

Look in /etc/mail and the file sendmail.cf.additions.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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