On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:11:20PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> While the m4 macros cover most common things they don't cover every
> possible case. Here is an example. Years ago in sendmail I needed to
> deliver mail in a particular way. I needed machines in the same
> domain to be delivered dir
Bob Proulx wrote:
> James Vahn wrote:
>> I'm unsure why sendmail runs as root if exim/postfix don't.
>
> In order to deliver mail to the local user's mailbox the MDA (mail
> delivery agent) needs to run as the user. Same for being piped into a
> mail filter such as spamassassin. In order to swit
hi ya james
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote:
> > i don't know if this was meant to be offline ..
>
> Whoops.
:-) too late now .. but you can repost back to the list ..
> >> FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
> >> FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
> >> FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl
..
>
James Vahn wrote:
> I'm unsure why sendmail runs as root if exim/postfix don't.
In order to deliver mail to the local user's mailbox the MDA (mail
delivery agent) needs to run as the user. Same for being piped into a
mail filter such as spamassassin. In order to switch to a user the
program need
Tis a neat trick and works well for me.
Regards
Steven
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From: James Vahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2005 2:16 p.m.
To: Alvin Oga
Subject: Re: offline ?? Re: sendmail trouble
Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya james
>
> i don't
Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya james
>
> i don't know if this was meant to be offline ..
Whoops.
>> FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
>> FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
>> FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl
>
> i don't use greet_pause .. i have no time to sit and test it out .. :-)
There's nothing to t
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:40:11PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl
>
> i don't use greet_pause .. i have no time to sit and test it out .. :-)
It's one of the best anti-spam features in sendmail, and pretty fool
proof. The main thing you need to remember is to pro
hi ya james
i don't know if this was meant to be offline ..
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote:
> > yup.. but in 1 minutes.. you're completely done w/ antispam
>
> I've found that these help a lot too. If the headers don't pass the
> tests, the data never comes across the wire. They are desc
Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> yup.. but in 1 minutes.. you're completely done w/ antispam
I've found that these help a lot too. If the headers don't pass the
tests, the data never comes across the wire. They are described in
cf.README and really silence most of the noise.
FEATURE(`access_db')dnl
FEATURE(
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote:
> Sendmail/Exim/Postfix/Smail have all had security vulnerabilities
> reported as recent as this year.
yup ... xxx is not usually better than yyy for certain metrics ..
- being better at one thing doesn't mean its "better" in general
- a working sys
Bob Proulx wrote:
> I also ran Sendmail for years. It was a good mailer in its day and
> has set the standard. But unfortunately it has had a long history of
> security vulnerabilities. Mostly this one thing is what has driven
> people away from it.
Sendmail/Exim/Postfix/Smail have all had secu
James Vahn wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should
> > move away from sendmail. Half will be to postfix. Half will be to
> > exim.
>
> Any idea why? I've never understood why Debian moved to Exim as the
> default MTA. Longtime sendma
Bob Proulx wrote:
> I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should
> move away from sendmail. Half will be to postfix. Half will be to
> exim.
Any idea why? I've never understood why Debian moved to Exim as the
default MTA. Longtime sendmail user, 10-11 years.
I didn't
On 9/5/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sanjay wrote:> I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails> from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries> about spam and stuff.I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you sho
Sanjay wrote:
> I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails
> from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries
> about spam and stuff.
I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should
move away from sendmail. Half will be
Hi,
I am trying this for a while, I am close but not sure what is missing.
I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails
from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries
about spam and stuff. What I need to do is to be able to connect to this
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:58, John Hasler wrote:
> Erik Dörnbach wrote:
> > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of
> > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a
> > feature or something?
>
> That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about.
Erik Dörnbach wrote:
> How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of
> "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a
> feature or something?
That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about. See
http://spf.pobox.com/
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:11:24 +0100
Erik Dörnbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...there are some guys using our server against us,
> by simply opening an smtp connection to us, pretending to be
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and sending mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - sendmail
> doesn't see this as a relay or
Hi,
some question, I have a sendmail box running for a number of virtual domains, our main
domain is say "aaa.com". I just noticed some funny things starting here, there are
some guys using our server against us, by simply opening an smtp connection to us,
pretending to be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" a
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