Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:44:06 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSDQ <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Periodic mails Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206251529380.5181-100000@gren.cs.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206251419381.27038-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jan Grant wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jan Grant wrote: > > > > > sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). > > > # If NONE, don't start any sendmail processes. > > > sendmail_submit_enable="YES" # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail > > > submission > > > sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). > > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO). > > > > > > You probably want NO, YES, YES, YES, respectively. > > > > This setup, does it permit mails only from and to the localhost? > > I want my computer to be totally closed to the outside when it > > comes to mail. Only internal mail on the same machine should be > > allowed. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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