Checking sendmail.cf file at boot time

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 26, 2003, Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> In an earlier posting I made on the Shrike list, I mentioned it is a
> good idea to turn off mail relaying in sendmail.

> The best answer to that is that a substitute sendmail.cf file could be
> inserted to the system maliciously at some point.

And what effect could the fact that relaying is disabled in the
replaced sendmail.cf possibly have on the replacement?

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Alexandre Oliva, GCC Team, Red Hat