[lug] Relaying Mail

[nunar at mauromedia.net]

Is there any thing I should know about before I upgrade sendmail?

Shannon


> ** Original Subject: RE: [lug] Relaying Mail
> ** Original Sender: Andrew Diederich <andrew at NETdelivery.com>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:53:44 -0600

> ** Original Message follows... 

>
> Hmm.  I have switched to using postfix mostly, but I'm pretty sure the
> distributions keep sendmail from being an open relay out of the box.  You
> can force sendmail to be an open relay, but you'd have to set it this way on
> purpose, I think.  The README for sendmail should give more explicit
> examples, depending on your version, I imagine.  In SuSE 6.1 my readme is
> /usr/share/sendmail/README, and I can send you a copy if you like.  
> 
> The other config files (besides /etc/sendmail.cf) in SuSE are in /etc/mail.
> Access and relay-domains are popular.  Some distros use m4 files to generate
> sendmail.cf, and there are other config files I can't think of offhand.
> 
> Sory I couldn't be more specific.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nunar at mauromedia.net [mailto:nunar at mauromedia.net]
> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 13:28
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: RE: [lug] Relaying Mail
> > 
> > 
> > I'm using sendmail.
> > 
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