[KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8

[Jeremy Leonard]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Sendmail, Majordomo, and Redhat 8


> <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.

You are correct. That's why I chose RH. I wouldn't just willy-nilly change a
system. Back ground on me is. I'm a CNE, and an MCSE. I've been looking at
Linux since RH 5.2. I have several domains hosted on several linux boxes. I
know a little PHP. I also have several linux fire walls I support along with
several servers running Samba.

>
> >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).

I've used RedHat 5.2, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3

Older versions needed configuring however since 7x I haven't realy needed to
do anything other than create users. In previous versions I used linuxconf
which doesn't exist in RH anymore.

>
> Regards,
> ---> RGB <---
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