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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Brian Horvitz wrote: > Can someone give me a clue on filtering mail on using the stock sendmail > that comes with Solaris? I am unfortunately without a sysadmin right now > (anyone need a job?) but I do know enough to monkey with what needs > monkeying. Anyway, a certain user decided to dial up (to somewhere > else) and use my mail system to send mail to every single AOL user. Today First upgrade to sendmail 8.8.5 (or try 8.8.6) and then take a look at: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/english.html > alone I probably got about 600 copies of his bounced mail...never mind > that this is deffinately not cool. Anyway, I have the email address that > he is using as for the FROM: field so I'd like to simply block that out. > Help would be appreciated. You also need to prevent people from using your server as a relay. If you don't, you are doomed. Bill
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