RE: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade
Thanks Thomas,
Works like a dream.... and it even makes sense!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas lakofski [mailto:tommy@88.net]
> Sent: 14 March 1999 11:19
> To: Simon Martin
> Cc: Debian-user list
> Subject: Re: Version 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Simon Martin wrote:
>
> > 1) sendmail.cf has been moved from /etc to /etc/mail, but the script
> > /etc/init.d/sendmail checks for the existence if the /etc/sendmail.cf
> > command before it executes anything.
>
> There should be a file /etc/init.d/sendmail.dpkg-new -- you might want to
> replace the /etc/init.d/sendmail file with this one so that it looks in
> the right place.
>
> > 2) I found that submitting mail from the Linux box worked but
> submitting it
> > from a workstation did not, giving an error about "relaying".
> The only way I
> > could get round this was to add domain names for all my clients into the
> > /etc/mail/relay-domains file. This seems to work, but it is a real drag.
> > Thank God I did the upgrade over the weekend.
>
> This relaying protection is actually something that you definitely DO
> want. If you're running sendmail open to all relaying on the Internet,
> before long some spammer will discover it and happily steal your bandwidth
> and cpu to send their crap all over the Internet, possibly resulting in
> the blacklisting of your mailhost stopping you from mailing about 30% of
> the net.
>
> You should be able to use appropriate wildcards in the relay-domains file
> so you don't have to do it by host, but by IP ranges (172.16.*) or whole
> domains (*.example.com). Yes it's more of a pain than unrestricted
> access, but having your mailer exploited by spammers is more of a pain
> than anything (and many people will dislike you for it.)
>
> hope this helps,
>
> -thomas
>
> ......
> please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is
> xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off -
> EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
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