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Re: [suse-security] relaying
  • From: Roman Drahtmueller <draht@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:56:29 +0200 (MEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008221651030.1204-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> sendmail version 8.9.3

That's good.

> > sendmail should reject relaying attempts with the latest distributions.
> >
> > Make sure you did not use a sendmail.cf file from an older distribution!
> > The file that you need is /etc/mail/access (don't forget to
> > `makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access.db'!).
> I always rehash my db files after making changes. Besides I have also
> noticed that it seems to ignore certain files like genericstable.db It

I can't verify this behaviour. Did you follow Werner Fink's hints in
/etc/mail/genericstable?

> reads the virtuser table but access and relay-domains no way yet the lines
> are there in sendmail.cf lines like

Hmmm. I also can't verify this.

Are you aware that some of the features just don't get used if you relay
your mail through the server?


> # Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses)
> Kgenerics hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable.db
>
>
>
> # Virtual user table (maps incoming users)
> Kvirtuser hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db
>
> # Access list database (for spam stomping)
> Kaccess hash -o /etc/mail/access.db

Roman.
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