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Sendmail 8.9.3

 
Chris Serio_1
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Sendmail 8.9.3

We have just installed sendmail 8.9.3 on our HP-UX 10.20 system. How do we
prevent mail relay in our system? The steps I performed with assistance were:
execute script gen_cf select option 5, copy
/usr/newconfig/etc/mail/sendmail.cf.gen to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. This file
was then edited to add the network server to the macro DS. Then sendmail was
stopped and restarted. How do I verify?
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Kondala Raju
Advisor

Re: Sendmail 8.9.3

what do u mean by preventing mail relay , is that u dont want to forward any
mails to another server ?
Berlene Herren_1
Super Advisor

Re: Sendmail 8.9.3

Transmission of messages from a site outside your domain to another site
outside your domain (relaying) is denied by default when using a sendmail-8.9.3
sendmail.cf file. Previous versions of sendmail allowed relaying by default.

Berlene