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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051106/640b66c1/attachment-0004.html>