On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:22, Derek Martin wrote: > This is a security/spam problem. This feature tells sendmail to relay > mail for any domain for which an MX record points to the host in > question. This means I can use your mail server as a MX host by > simply pointing an MX record at it. It also means that rather than > doing a very fast database lookup, on every e-mail received, sendmail > must do an expensive DNS query to determine if it is an MX host for a > given domain. > > This feature really should never be used, except internally, and > probably not even then. >
Yes, this is also outlined in the docs. Just wanted to let him know of another possible option. > - -- > Derek D. Martin > http://www.pizzashack.org/ > GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 Does any else besides me mentally translate the key ID above to DEADBEEF? (no insult meant Derek!). -- Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
