Re: Postfix in unstable made my system an open spam relay
On Tue, 02 Oct 2001, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Bruce Perens (on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 01:57:20AM -0700):
> > WARNING: The postfix snapshot in unstable, when installed, makes my
> > system into an open relay. It happens here with the default
> > configuration. I had to fall back to the one in unstable.
>
> um, ever considered fixing the configuration? i doubt that the default
> applies to your system anyway...
Postfix takes quite a lot of pain not to be an open relay by default. If
Debian's standard debconf'ed Postfix install is forcing it to become an
open relay, that's grouds for a security grave/critical bug report.
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Henrique Holschuh
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