At 11:04 AM 2/23/99 +0100, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
>On 22-Feb-99 17:13:13, das wrote something about "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I just couldn't
>help replying to it, thus:
>> I'm running qmail on my little Linux box with a couple of folks using it
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> And it is in the ORBS list:
><URL:http://www.orbs.org/verify.cgi?address=204.117.27.42>
>
>
> Dan, please change qmail so that if control/rcpthosts is missing, qmail
>will not relay at all. Perhaps qmail(-[qs]mtpd) should even refuse to run. The
>only people who benefit from the current behaviour are the spammers.
I have to 'fess up to that error myself only the other day. I get so blase`
about qmail installs that I happened to occasionally forget about rcpthosts.
Naturally within a couple of days it dawned on me (at dawn strangely enough)
and I fixed it before a scanner spammer noticed. But a less conscientious
person may not have bothered.
My point is not who is conscientious and who is not, rather it's to concur
with Rask in that maybe it's time to change the default behaviour.
Regards.
