Re: Sendmail issue

[Tim <tg@mail.cityscape.net>]

There is something to be said for having it hardened out of the box! But,
I would think that the average workstation user wouldnt install sendmail
since he wouldnt need it. If installing sendmail, that implies that you
want to "send mail" through it, eh?




Tim Grossner
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On Fri, 11 May 2001, Danny Sauer wrote:

> Making the system secure until someone who knows that they don't want
> that security is generally a good thing.  The general public doesn't
> need to let others send mail off of their workstation, but they might
> want to send mail themselves sometimes, hence, their mailserver doesn't
> need to listen to anything but the local machine.
> 
> --Danny, who needs something better to do than sitting and watching the LUCI list...
> 
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:33:42AM -0500, Tim wrote:
> > Thanks, that did the trick...any reasone they are using that setting as
> > the default for RH7.1 sendmail installs?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tim Grossner
> > Field Operations Manager        CCNA, MCP, A+
> > Southwestern Bell Datacom
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> > pager - 217-467-3148
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> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 May 2001, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > 
> > > Tim said:
> > > > I have a RH7.1 box that is not accepting connections to the sendmail port
> > > > from anywhere except itself...any idea what config file to check?
> > > 
> > > Comment out this line in /etc/sendmail.cf and restart sendmail:
> > > 
> > >     O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
> > > 
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