[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Robert G. Brown]

<lists@elite.elite4god.com> wrote:
>The only reason I'm changing everything is because there is no backup!
>I've only ever worked with RedHat.
OK, so what yuo're doing is replacing the slackware system with a redhat 
system, so you know what's going on and feel more confident about maintaining 
it? I think some background is in order.

>I've never had to change anything to get sendmail to work on the Internet.
I don't understand. For years, Red Hat has installed sendmail so that it
is "broken", that is, it doesn't work as an Internet mail server. Why? 
Because it can pose a HUGE security risk.

If you set up sendmail but didn't have to change anything, it was a long
time ago (a version over 3 years old), or it wasn't Red Hat (other 
distributions are free to provide therir own default configurations of
sendmail). 

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