On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 12:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 11:35, Sam Drinkard wrote:
I still stand by my thinking that there should be some mention of how to enable sendmail to accept network connections in the docs without swimming thru all the various pages of setup and sysadmin, but that is strictly *my* opinion. I know better now :-)
You really shouldn't enable sendmail on the internet until you understand the options well enough to keep it from being an open relay. And if you have windows boxes as mail clients you should hook up some kind of virus protection for them (mimedefang and clamav work nicely).
I've been administering sendmail and Unix boxen since about 1990, and since switching to Linux, I admit, I've learned a thing or 3, but sendmail is not *normally* (in configurations I've used) set to accept open relaying, and I for one hate that anyone would permit it.