Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Paul Black
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 00:00

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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) wrote:
> How? My understanding is that there should be a sendmail.m4 file
> which m4 converts to sendmail.cf, which controls how sendmail works.
> However, there is no sendmail.m4 on my system. sendmail.cf looks a
> bit intimidating -- like rather bad ascii art in fact.

Don't touch .cf files, it's not worth it! Exactly what your .mc (not .m4)
file is called depends on your distribution, you could always write your
own, they not too hard.

> No, should I be? (I've got a dial-up account, not a machine permanently
> connected).

Definitely, you still get people trying to access various ports. Not all
of these are covered by TCP wrappers. Much better to be sure of what
may be accessed by external machines.

Paul

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