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  From: Richard Walford <rwalford@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:48:14 +0930

Re: sendmail problem and geeks and nerds

Personally, I would choose not to become a sendmail geek, doing so may
require you to lose your valuable social skills thus becoming a nerd.  Get a
life and use qmail instead !! But, whatever you do don't become a qmail geek
by using mailldir - keep it simple and run qmail with the good old mailbox
idea.....

http://www.qmail.org/



----- Original Message -----
From: <marko@woogie.nu>
To: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
Cc: LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, 23 September 1999 11:07
Subject: Re: sendmail problem


> On 23 Sep, David Newall wrote:
> >> I've already conluded from http://www.orbs.org/otherresources.cgi
> >> that sendmail 8.8.7 is unsalvageable.
> >
> > Unsalvageable?  Why?  I'm on 8.8.4.
> >
> There's a denial of service attack in sendmail versions below 8.9.3, I
> think I heard somewhere that there is a security hole in versions below
> 8.8.7 too, but I could be mistaken on that.
>
> Personally I would just get the latest version and use the access
> database, add the line:
> FEATURE(access_db, hash -o /etc/mail/access)
> to you .mc file before you make you config file.
>
> then you just add the names or ip of the to your /etc/mail/access file
> ie "192.168 RELAY" or "woogie.nu RELAY" etc
> you can also use it to deny mail from an adress or domain
> ie "spammer@aol.com 550 Go blow a goat spammer"
>
> I'm a big fan of the access database, the rules are explained in the
> sendmail-8.9.3/cf/README file (which you should read before making your
> config file).
>
> Assuming you have the sendmail 8.9.3 src and not just some binary rpm.
>
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------------
> Mark O'Loughlin         marko@metropolis.net.au
> Technical Manager
> Metropolitan Internet Services
>
> ----------------------------------
> "Ty chto mumu yebyosh?"
>
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