From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 22 13:20:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7771437B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13cZJ4-0008hi-00; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:20:26 +0200 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:20:26 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm Subject: Re: sendmail default run state Message-ID: <20000922222026.A33410@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000922215616.A33103@mithrandr.moria.org> <200009222010.e8MKAv117254@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200009222010.e8MKAv117254@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:10:57PM -0600 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 2000-09-22 (14:10), Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > It sounds like you're describing a desktop client type environment > where you're running a local MUA that talks IMAP or POP to a central > server. Many of those MUAs want to inject mail through the local (to > the machine they are running on) SMTP server. By outright disabling > local SMTP service you run into POLA issues -- making this change > can break MUA functionality. The only one I can think of is fetchmail. What other ones behave like this? It is a good point, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message