Sendmail open relay problem

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Mason
ORDB has classified mny server as an open relay, but I can't figure out how to prevent this. I have all the normal restrictions in place, and almost all of the ORDB test emails were rejected. Howeever, the one that got through used a very strange sender address. I have tested my mails erver

Re: Sendmail: open relay from inside?

2002-01-26 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 1/26/2002 10:50 AM -0500, you wrote: >Just tell it what ports you want to listen on and it will not listen on any >others. It's the same as what RH does to prevent any listening on outside >ports by default. You can list as many as you need. > >DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA

Re: Sendmail: open relay from inside?

2002-01-26 Thread Brian Ashe
Rodolfo, On Saturday 26 January 2002 10:21, you said something about: > Hi! > > I have a firewall/gateway box (7.2 with updates) which has been working > properly for a while, albeit with a very simple configuation (masquerade > anything out, let only ssh in). Now, I'd like to put sendmail on it

Sendmail: open relay from inside?

2002-01-26 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
Hi! I have a firewall/gateway box (7.2 with updates) which has been working properly for a while, albeit with a very simple configuation (masquerade anything out, let only ssh in). Now, I'd like to put sendmail on it but with two twists: 1. Tell sendmail only to accept connections from the in

Re: linuxconf (was Re: Open Relay?)

2000-09-12 Thread Michael R. Jinks
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:28:39AM -0700, Joe Brenner wrote: > > If there was an extremely verbose linuxconf log, > at least it would serve the function of letting you know > what setup files you should be looking at. (And how about > automatically generated backup files and an undo feature? >

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Statux wrote: > Honestly.. how many people actually use Linuxconf? :) I do all the time. DNS, networking, sendmail to anme a few services that I have had no problems with. Oh yeah NFS, both client and server and fstab too. It is really getting to be a good tool. Every now and then I need to

linuxconf (was Re: Open Relay?)

2000-09-12 Thread Joe Brenner
Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12-Sep-00 Statux wrote: > > Honestly.. how many people actually use Linuxconf? :) > > I (with close to 10 years of Unix experiance, as well as 7 > Linux) recommend it to new users... which is not to say > that I use it for everything I do. You mus

RE: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Robert Friberg wrote: > > Thanks, > > I shut the daemon down for now, I'm just sending messages anyway. > > I thought relaying was disabled by default, I quote > http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html > > "As of sendmail version 8.9, forwarding of SMTP messages is >

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Gregory Hosler
ent, and instead of using linuxconf, I found it easier to $EDITOR `grep {key text, such as old IP} \`find /etc -type f\`` -Greg > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dan Horth wrote: > >> At 3:23 AM -0400 12/9/00, Statux wrote: >> >What's open relay? >> >> >&g

RE: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Friberg
> there's a switch in linuxconf in the servers/mail delivery > system/basic section (or something like that) entitled "enable SPAM > control" or something like that (pretty vague - but not infront of > computer at the moment) that will close your mail relay so you can > get off the orbs blacklis

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Statux
Honestly.. how many people actually use Linuxconf? :) On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dan Horth wrote: > At 3:23 AM -0400 12/9/00, Statux wrote: > >What's open relay? > > > it's in the headers of the email he attached... > > open relay = open mail relay - your

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Horth
At 3:23 AM -0400 12/9/00, Statux wrote: >What's open relay? it's in the headers of the email he attached... open relay = open mail relay - your mail server will accept mail from anyone and forward it to anyone... the sort of server spammers love... there's a switch in

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Statux
What's open relay? On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Robert Friberg wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > How do I shut down open relay? I'm running RH 6.0. > > -- > robert friberg, ensofus ab > +46(0)708 98 57 01 > > > > The original message was recei

Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Robert Friberg
Hi all, How do I shut down open relay? I'm running RH 6.0. -- robert friberg, ensofus ab +46(0)708 98 57 01 The original message was received at Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:32:16 +0200 from nobody@localhost - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROT