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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:37:01 +0300
From:      Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com>
To:        'Hans Zaunere' <zaunere@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Spoof attack?
Message-ID:  <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA00025558810150D599@mailserv.xpert.com>

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> 
> Ok, that sounds reasonable.  However, sendmail is not
> running.  Its a very stripped down system, with
> nothing running except ssh.  The only thing I could
> think of is my periodic security mailings from cron,
> which I get in my root box. 
You got that right. When "periodic" sends a mail locally
it execs sendmail. 
> However, if I dont have
> sendmail running, how am I getting these?  Also, can
> these be sent somewhere else (externally), even
> without me running sendmail?
The mails can be sent from your machine to a remote
machine, yes. You can try
mail myothermail@hotmail-or-something.com < /etc/motd
to see that you don't have to run sendmail for outgoing mails.
You should be able to reproduce the warning message with
mail localuser </etc/motd

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