sendmail_enable="NO" /"YES"/"MAYBE" ?

Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg listsub at 401.cx
Mon Aug 11 04:17:14 PDT 2003


Konrad Heuer wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Richard Shea wrote:
>
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>>Hi - I currently have sendmail_enable="NO" in my rc.conf file. This
>>allows emails to be sent from the FBSD machine however I would like one
>>other machine on the LAN to use the FBSD machine as a SMTP machine.
>>
>>I think sendmail_enable="YES" would do this but would then allow every
>>other machine on the LAN to use sendmail ? Is there some way I could
>>limit sendmail users by IP address ?
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>Yes, sendmail_enable="YES" will do the job.
>
>FreeBSD sendmail respects the TCP wrapper config file /etc/hosts.allow;
>you can limit access to sendmail there (look at "man 5 hosts_options").
>
>Regards
>Konrad
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Checkout /etc/mail/access, it allows you to control who is permitted to 
relay trough your server.

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R




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