Many thanks, I intend to do the massive upgrade, pain, and suffering of trying to get everything rebuilt from scratch when 2.0 is considered released.
Yes, old smail. I will forward this to the debian-user list for comment. Unfortunately, I had to unsubscribe due to message volume, so I must request direct replies.... Curt- > On Thu 28 May 1998, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I obviously don't have my smail filter configured correctly, > > as last night I had to pull the ethernet plug from my Debian > > machine running smail to stop many thousands of spam emails > > using my machine as a remailer. > > > > My question is: Preventing incoming mail "To:" anything other > > than the local machine, and "From:" anything but the local > > machine would seem a standard form of security filter for > > smail. > > This misuse of your system is called relaying. The current version of > smail should support blocking this, but perhaps does not do so per > default. > > I use exim (comfortable when you're used to smail and a blessing if > you're used to sendmail :-), and the Debian package of that comes with a > default configuration of "prevent relaying". > > Hmmm, I just figured you're probably still using Debian 1.3.1; that > might not have the smail (or exim, or whatever) that will help block > relaying. As Debian 2.0 is not yet released (although getting close!) it > might be troublesome for you to upgrade to the "deepfreeze" 2.0 version. > Or not, depending on your expertise... > > > Does anyone know of such a standard rules entry? > > I don't think that the old smail had this. It wasn't that big a problem > up to one or two years ago :-( > > > I don't know what list to send this to, if "security" is > > not a good place, I will try the "users" list. > > I'd guess users would have been better; maybe folks there have > suggestions for your version of smail. > > > Paul Slootman > -- > home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
