unblock port 25

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Mike,

Mike Klinke wrote:

>On Wednesday 26 October 2005 15:36, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
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>>The original thought behind the option that you just disabled was
>>to restrict where the sendmail listened for connections , so that
>>it wouldn't be an open relay ( relaying , sending emails to the
>>whole internet for everybody , even spammers ) .  So i guess you
>>would have to reenable the above option or edit access.db , so
>>that your sendmail would relay emails
>>just for you and not for the entire world
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>By default RH ships sendmail configured with access_db enabled and 
>relaying only allowed by localhost in the /etc/mail/access
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I guess that stands for all versions up to Fedora Core 4
including Fedora Core 4 ( am using Fedora Core 1 but
with a self compiled sendmail , so am not  tottaly aware
of what exactly Redhat is doing .

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>configuration file so this shouldn't be a problem unless a 
>different configuration is being used by him.
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Thanks for the correction Mike , no i was assuming that
he was using the default configuration . As i have a
standalone computer the defaults have always been
working nicely.


>Regards, Mike Klinke
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Regards,
  Kostas Sfakiotakis