On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:51 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > I've never had Linux accepting mail from the internet with its SMTP > > server, in all the years that I've used Linux. And only those with > > their own domain name and/or fixed IP address could to that, either. > > I just started trying this last week, more as "proof of concept" > than a serious matter. > I found changing sendmail.mc fairly simple. > In addition to commenting out the line that was mentioned, > I also commented in the LOCAL_DOMAIN line (with appropriate domain); > I'm not sure if that is actually necessary? > > I've been warned that what I did was very dangerous, > so I'll probably close it down, > unless I find a simple way to stop it being an "open relay". > > Incidentally, I also had to open a peephole in my ADSL modem, > and add a rule to shorewall to allow email in. It is not dangerous at all if you have proper firewalls, The access database in /etc/mail -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
