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  From: Brad <bjones@rebel.net.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 05:32:42 +1030

Re: Sendmail Question

> Incidentally, this also implies that a LOT of people's configurations
> will accept localhost.localdomain as valid (i.e. the SMTP agent,
> presented with ehlo localhost.localdomain lets the mail get through).
> Now, as we know I'm a fairly prolific mailer, and mostly to Linux
> related lists, does this imply a security/spam risk?
>
> That is to say, if you want to spam, do you just make sure your SMTP
> conversation starts with "ehlo localhost.localdomain"?

Is it not possible to use rebel's mail server in the smart relay option in
sendmail on your machine, it would fix most of these problems ?

Brad


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