In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>Could someone here help direct Maurizio to information on patching
>sendmail to not relay spam? I'm afraid I'm not an expert on the issue.
Sure.
Probably the best place sto start is:
http://maps.vix.com/tsi/
On that page you will see a link that says something like ``How do I fix
the problem?'' Click on that and you will be taken to a page which lists
a whole lot of different Mail Transfer Agents. For Sendmail 8, click on
the Sendmail 8 link. On the next page that comes up when you do that you
will see (about the tird or fourth paragraph down) a line that says
something like ``Here is a MESSAGE describing a more comprehensive solution.''
(or something like that). Anyway, click on the word MESSAGE and up will
pop a copy of a mail message containing a solution that seems to work
quite well _and_ that also supports virtual domain (in case you have any
of those).
I have found that the approach deacribed in that message works in cases
where people have tried other slightly different methods and failed. In
other words accept no substitutes. This one really works! (It even worked
for one guy I was helping to get his relay closed even though the approach
recomented by the vendor of him operating system... SCO... on their own
web pages failed rather miserably.)
Anyway, if you follow the instructions in the message I have pointed you
at here TO THE LETTER, you will have no problems. It's a piece of cake,
really. Just be sure to remember that blanks and tabs are most definitely
NOT equivalent in sendmail.cf files. Thus, when you are trying to splice
the material from the message I have pointed you at here into your sendmail.cf
file, you will really need to bring up the message in your browser and then
do a SAVE-AS to save it to a file and then use a text editor to hack out
just the part of the message that's supposed to be spliced into your
sendmail.cf file, and then save _just that_ to a file, and then, using a
text editor, read that in while you are editing your sendmail.cf file.
DO NOT just try to use X-windows cut-n-paste operations when tying to
splice the additional rules into your sendmail.cf file. That will turn
all the tabs into blanks and (thus) will screw up everything.
-- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc.
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