We need a new subject- bug fixes

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:51 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > I've never had Linux accepting mail from the internet with its SMTP
> > server, in all the years that I've used Linux.  And only those with
> > their own domain name and/or fixed IP address could to that, either.
> 
> I just started trying this last week, more as "proof of concept"
> than a serious matter.
> I found changing sendmail.mc fairly simple.
> In addition to commenting out the line that was mentioned,
> I also commented in the LOCAL_DOMAIN line (with appropriate domain);
> I'm not sure if that is actually necessary?
> 
> I've been warned that what I did was very dangerous,
> so I'll probably close it down,
> unless I find a simple way to stop it being an "open relay".
> 
> Incidentally, I also had to open a peephole in my ADSL modem,
> and add a rule to shorewall to allow email in.
It is not dangerous at all if you have proper firewalls, The access
database in /etc/mail


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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>