securing relay...

[Venkata Achanta]

>/etc/mail/access should not have mydomain.com in it.
>
>mydomain.com should be in /etc/mail/relay-domains
>
>I suspect that someone is using your sendmail box to send out spam from
>user at mydomain.com  Since you have mydomain.com in your access file, you are
>allowing them to relay.  What does your maillog show?
>
>Mike

True.your /etc/mail/access should contain only localhost and all the 
allowed relay domains should be listed in /etc/mail/relay-domains

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