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Re: How to diable mail relaying in smail



This is fixed in later versions (i.e., 3.2.0.102-1 in potato).  You
might want to get the Debian source package of that and build your own
slink package.  exim is another possibility. I don't personally think
sendmail would be a step backwards--I use it.

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:42:04AM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> I need to disable mail relaying on my system.  I have smail 3.2.0.92-3,
> which came as the default with my Debian system, installed.  We cannot figure
> out how to turn off mail relaying (an institutionally required anti-spam
> measure), since smail does not use a sendmail.cf file.  Can anyone advise?
> 
> The only alternative would be to install sendmail in place of smail, but
> wouldn't that be a step backwards?
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 
> Tom Kuiper
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