Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail
> relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit
> and I need to get something like exim or sendmail.
>
> Is smail that insecure? And how can I know I am secure?
Smail 3.2.100 in hamm does this. It does it that good, that you should
only use it on permanently connected hosts for now.
Mailrelay is no really a problem for dialup hosts anyway.
To test it, enter your host as the smtp host in your mailsetup and send a
mail to some address outside this smtphost.
The smtp-host should not consider the computer you are running this
mailprogramm on, as part of its localnet, so dialin to a different ISP.
If you try to send this mail, you should get an error from the smtp-server
("we do not relay" or such).
If you decide to go for the smail from hamm, backup your
/etc/aliases. It got wiped out on my host because I run smailconfig in
post-inst (I believe).
Ciao,
Martin
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