Re: tlug: Sendmail won't deliver from unrecognized host.

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

> The protocols simply don't allow that to be an effective "discipline."
> The only way for selection on sender address to work effectively is to
> accept mail only from trusted partners.  But in that case you should
> use a firewall (or good ol' tcp-wrappers) to deny or reject the TCP
> connection from anyone else; why waste CPU and bus cycles firing up
> sendmail?

Good point.  Other restrictions built into 8.9.1 (by default it
refuses to behave as a mail relay for anyone at all) seem to be a
good thing, though.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
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