From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 12:55:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6751637BA4B for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 26189 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2000 19:56:55 -0000 Received: from client99-59.hispeed.ch (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 6 Jun 2000 19:56:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:56:46 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (1.42) Business Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <90470422972.20000606215646@buz.ch> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spoofed mail In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello keith, Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 9:50:49 PM, you wrote: > Is there a method to prevent mail spoofs? What is to stop spamers from > just scripting a telnet to port 25 and doing their deeds there? Configuring your SMTP to only allow users with the right to send mail... The way to accomplish that depends on the mailserver you use. Don't ask me anything about sendmail, qmail is ok though ;-) Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message