On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: > Here is what earthlink sent me: > > > * The mail server used to send your e-mail has been > confirmed to be vulnerable to third party relay. For
Unlikely, since you've installed sendmail from 7.3 and relaying is disallowed by default. > * Your e-mail attempted to pass directly from a dynamically > assigned IP range (such as dialup, cable, or DSL) to the > EarthLink network (known as "direct to MX") > without first routing through the appropriate SMTP > server. Please visit: VERY likely since sendmail is smart enough to deliver mail directly. A good fix for this would be to use sendmail's SMART_HOST feature. For my own ISP, I've got the following in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp:mail.attbi.com')dnl You'll need to define Earthlink's SMTP mailer here. Once you've edited sendmail.mc (and make a BACKUP before you start!!!), do the following: # m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf # service sendmail restart When you've done this, you've basically told sendmail to redirect all its e-mail to EL's SMTP server. From there, it will be delivered to its final destination. This isn't so bad - any redeliveries happen automatically after they've left your system. I've run into cases myself where braindead mailers have rejected e-mail coming from my system, but when I switched to using a smart host, those issues went away. Your users won't notice any change except maybe in the bounce messages. If you spell a domain name wrong (say .cmo instead of .com), you'll get a bounce message from EL, not from your own sendmail. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
