Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology
On 10/8/2014 8:32 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:40:28PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> And how can you be positive your network is secure? For instance, you
>> don't have a configuration error, a bug in a router, an access point
>> with weak encryption... the list of potential holes is almost endless.
>
> The likelyhood of both one of those scenarios AND a spammer with local access
> discovering and exploiting them are rather lower, than the risk of getting
> something wrong when setting up SMTP Auth and SSL properly for all current
> and future clients on this small home LAN, especially since the OP is not an
> experienced administrator of SMTP servers. Using (or abusing, if you insist)
> dc_relay_nets for this scenario is entirely sensible advice, IMHO.
>
>
Do you also allow your users to log into your systems via ssh or telnet
with no root password?
You claim the likelyhood is low - but are you sure about that? Spammers
look for such things all the time. My servers and even my home network
logs show multiple attempts every day by hackers.
BTW - it's also why I have multiple layers of security on my home network.
Jerry
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