Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Or Sagi
do you think that that comfort, which can mostly (if not totally) maintained, is worth the price of being used for spam relaying ? (not to mention the cost and hassle for the server administrators themselves). Also, most of the GUI clients (l)users use, check for mail on startup, so most of those

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
OS>> Your network --- Your problem, but having your smtp server accessible from OS>> the net, and having it relaying for everyone is something which cannot be OS>> justified - In my humble opinion, at least. (Well, I also took that OS>> opinion from Paul Vixie, so it's not so humble) There are c

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Or Sagi
> what's RBL ? MAPS RBL, Mail Abuse Prevention System - Realtime Blackhole List. It's a system from creating intentional network outages for the purpose of limiting spam mail. Basically, they keep a DB of systems which are known to be spammers-friendly, keep an open relay, etc .. There are rul

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Oded Arbel
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Or Sagi wrote: > Hi, > > the "Right" way to allow such open relay is use some sort of > authentication (That's what POP before SMTP is for), rather then keep an > open relay. Having an open relay around will get you RBLed in no time ... what's RBL ? well- I want to have

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Meir Litmanovich wrote: > My suggest is to rebuild .cf from scratch with your > favorit options enabled . For sure, you do not need > to write it yourself - just use m4 . I know I don't need to edit sendmail.cf . I meant to say that I used the file redhat.mc that came wit

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-14 Thread Or Sagi
Hi, the "Right" way to allow such open relay is use some sort of authentication (That's what POP before SMTP is for), rather then keep an open relay. Having an open relay around will get you RBLed in no time ... check www.sendmail.org (and probably maps.vix.com, afair), for more informati

Re: Sendmail problem

1999-05-14 Thread Meir Litmanovich
My suggest is to rebuild .cf from scratch with your favorit options enabled . For sure, you do not need to write it yourself - just use m4 . Check m4's features: FEATURE(relay_entire_domain) FEATURE(relay_based_on_MX) FEATURE(relay_local_from) to help you with this specific problem . Meir

Re: sendmail problem: Relaying denied for

1999-04-13 Thread Oded Arbel
>After about a month of being able to send mail, my mail is once again being refused by my mail server. It seems that my mail server is a moving target... > >This is what I get in response when I send email: >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from R-H-185-98.access.net.il [192.117.185.98]. Please try >checking

Re: sendmail problem: Relaying denied for

1999-04-13 Thread Oded Arbel
>After about a month of being able to send mail, my mail is once again being refused by my mail server. It seems that my mail server is a moving target... > >This is what I get in response when I send email: >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from R-H-185-98.access.net.il [192.117.185.98]. Please try >checking

Re: sendmail problem: Relaying denied for

1999-04-13 Thread Omer
Hiya, David Resnick wrote: [snip snip] > This is what I get in response when I send email: > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- Transcript of session follows - > .. while talking to mm.mailbank.com.: > >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PRO