Hi every one ! :-)
Well , i'm going to learn how to mess with Sendmail ... but before a get
used with it i'm going to run it with its default config file .
I'll run with it as long as i learn and i would like to know wether its
default config file is " open relay " or not ?
If itis , how to restrict ( easily for the moment ) it not to relay
anything ?
Thanks for your help . :-)

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:29:55 +0100,
Rakotomandimby <mrakotom@free.fr> wrote:

> i would like to know wether its default config file is " open relay "
> or not ?

No, it's not. (This is sendmail's default these days). BTW, Slackware's
default mc file is at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/sendmail-slackware.mc.
You may wish to edit this to your own needs in the future.



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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:29:55 +0100, Rakotomandimby wrote:

> Hi every one ! :-)
> Well , i'm going to learn how to mess with Sendmail ... but before a get
> used with it i'm going to run it with its default config file . I'll run
> with it as long as i learn and i would like to know wether its default
> config file is " open relay " or not ? If itis , how to restrict (
> easily for the moment ) it not to relay anything ? Thanks for your help
> . :-)

The default configuration of Sendmail on Slackware 9.1 is not set up to be
an open relay. Go here , http://www.abuse.net/relay.html to check your
server.

The only thing I had to change in the sendmail-slackware.mc
(/usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf) was to use my ISP's smtp server as the 'smart
host', as more and more ISP's are rejecting 'residential' IP addresses
now.

HTH.

Regards,

Obi.

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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:06:36 +0000, Obi-Lan <username@host.nip> wrote:
> Go here , http://www.abuse.net/relay.html to check your server.

I always use 'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org'.


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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:41:54 +0000, Simon wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 02:06:36 +0000, Obi-Lan <username@host.nip> wrote:
>> Go here , http://www.abuse.net/relay.html to check your server.
>
> I always use 'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org'.

Thanks for the tip there.

Regards,

Obi.

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Rakotomandimby wrote:


Thanks for your help . :-)