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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.ctc.edu!usenet From: rhettk@mail.bbcc.ctc.edu (Rhett Karr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: security options in sendmail.cf Date: 18 Jun 1996 21:03:46 GMT Organization: Big Bend Community College Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4q75ji$pvm@news.ctc.edu> Reply-To: rhettk@bbcc.ctc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: rhett.bbcc.ctc.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ I have been trying a few security options for sendmail that are mentioned on pages 528-530 of the sendmail book from O'Reilly Assoc. (the bat book) to prevent made-up e-mail addresses from sending mail to real users. The book describes the "needexpnhelo", "needvrfyhelo", and "authwarnings" flags that can be set in the sendmail.cf file. The following line already exists in that file: #privacy flags Opauthwarnings Adding flaggs to the line so that it reads: #privacy flags Opauthwarnings,needexpnhelo,restrictmailq start sendmail without errors, but do not perform their designated functions. The above syntax is exactly as the book describes. Has anyone tried this and got it to work? I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0- STABLE and sendmail v.8.6.12. Any insight would be appreciated.