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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .