Only allow mail from 1 server

Dhawal Doshy dhawal at NETMAGICSOLUTIONS.COM
Wed Dec 1 14:31:13 GMT 2004


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Mark Spieth wrote:
> Not really. Sendmail will accept mail generally from any box as long as
> the mail is destined for that server. Firewalling is the best route to go.
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> Mark Spieth - Director of Internet Services

Some OSes like RH9, FC or RHEL3 seem to have sendmail compiled with tcp
wrappers support.. if you are using one of these your job is done..
simply use the hosts.allow to allow connections to sendmail and yeah
make sure you have also have the restricitons in your hosts.deny

- dhawal

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