We need a new subject- bug fixes

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 15:55 +0000, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 03:51pm on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> Is this true.  I understood the firewall has to be open to allow
> sendmail to accept email from the internet, and that could be email for
> the domain, or email for other domains, and the firewall can't
> differentiate.  Which is why sendmail needs to be configured to not
> accept email for domains other than those that are specifically
> intended.
> 
> Steve
The firewall is set to  open the ports you want to open and close the
ones you want to close. The access database controls the open relay
problem.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>