Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:00

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In article <m26761o2pg.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
           graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk "Graham Murray" writes:

> In demon.ip.support.unix, philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) writes:
> 
> > In article <g261h7.774.ln@anacon.demon.co.uk>
> >            mpe@anacon.demon.co.uk "Mark Evans" writes:
> > > 1) Have sendmail only accept connections from 127.0.0.1. e.g. using
> > > ipfwadm/ipchains.
> > 
> > Would this let me send mail? IOW, if I did this, would it stop sendmail
> > receiving amil from Demon, but still allow it to send mail out.
> 
> Yes it would, as long as your local system is configured as
> 127.0.0.1. Another way of doing this, using ipchains, is to use a
> ruleset like
> 
> ipchains -A input -i lo -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A input -p tcp --dport 25 -l -y -j DENY

Would I want to put these in some file under /etc/rc.d/ so that they
automatically run whenever I start Linux up?
 

-- 
Phil Hunt....philh@vision25.demon.co.uk

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: fetchmail works -- but so does sendmail
Date: 1999/05/10
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