Email question

Jake McHenry linux at nittanytravel.com
Sat Jul 31 04:23:08 UTC 2004


> ----
> Pay special attention to #10
>
> If you have previously allowed any relaying, whether by IP address or
> any other method, wait until very late at night to make sure you don't
> disrupt your users and then disable it. In your /etc/mail/access file,
> for example, make sure that you only allow relaying from localhost which
> is 127.0.0.1.
>
> Your listing of /etc/mail/access had a public IP address listed which
> permitted the entire world to use your system to relay - certainly an
> action which will generate a lot of angst towards you.
>
> Craig
>
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I only had that IP in there temp because that address was not being entered
into the drac database. Now that I got drac working again, I took it out.


I always work late, but anything after 6 is fine, mrtg says my mail traffic
is almost 100% 7:30 am to 5:30pm, after that it's all spam





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