Default Sendmail Configuration Changes?

[Henry Hartley]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de] 
>> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:34 AM
>> 
>> Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Henry Hartley um 16:45:
>> > 
>> > For anyone reading this in the archives, the answer has nothing to
>> > do with server configuration (in our case, anyway).  It had to do
>> > with a setting in Mozilla Mail.  Right click on an email account
>> > and go to properties.  Then, after the mail and news account(s)
>> > listed on the left is an entry for Outgoing Server (SMTP).  Click
>> > on that and untick the box for "Use name and password" and our 
>> > problem goes away.
>> 
>> But hopefully you have now no open relay mailhost! It is normally safe
>> to have 'private IP addresses' in /etc/mail/access to relay for. For a
>> better control enable SMTP AUTH in sendmail.mc and reactivate the AUTH
>> settings in Mozilla for sending mail.

Yes, we have iptables allowing relay only from local IP addresses.  Always
good to be reminded, though.  For those listening, you can test your server
at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html

-- 
Henry