On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:
> > Relaying is the classic method of sending spam - and most sensible
> > SysAdmin's have closed the relay hole in the sendmail/Qmail MTA's to stop
> > it.
>
> There is no relay hole in qmail! You can allow open relaying if you
> wish, and you can alow selective relaying as well, but the default
> installation (if you build from source) is to be closed.
Take your religious fervour and insert it blithly somewhere appropriate.
I'm not interested in "my MTA is better than your MTA" wars.
Any MTA which has ths possibility for relaying - be it deliberate, by
default, or just because the SysAdmin is too dumb to be allowed to live
and leaves it that way - has a hole.
sendmail has the same options - none, selective or wide open. it has a
hole. The notes MTA is worse - it's only got wide open or completely
closed. And I believe the exchange MTA is the same - wide open or closed.
Relaying is a curse invented by the RPC gods to give systems
administrators headaches.
DaZZa
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