please recommend sendmail references/books

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 02:45 11/26/2003, you wrote:
>I'm trying to set up sendmail so I can receive e-mail directly, in
>addition to using my isp supplied e-mail.
>
>My biggest concern is that I don't want people on the internet to be
>able to use my smtp server as a means to send mail to people with the
>result making it look like it me... I think that's called "relaying"...

No books necessary. My apologies for taking so long to respond, and I've 
seen that others responded earlier so hopefully this is still useful to 
you. I have written instructions for how to configure sendmail to accept 
mail from the outside and protect you from unauthorized relaying. I believe 
those instructions are pretty complete and pretty accurate, and about 200 
people a month read them (given October and November stats):

http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html

Please let me know if you find those useful, and if there is anything else 
you would like them to include. I am already working on the next revision, 
which will show in a little more detail the difference between steps in 
various operating systems, and also how to setup a POP3/IMAP server package 
so that people can check mail as well. Note that checking mail is a 
ridiculously easy thing, but some people still ask that it specifically be 
included.

Feedback, comments, suggestions, questions... all welcome.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com