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Subject: Re: -outgoing-Lists and Security?
From: Marc . Haber-lists @ gmx . de (Marc Haber)
Organization: posting from University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:30:05 GMT
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713133107.280A-100000@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:33:52 +0100 (BST), Ben Smithurst wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Marc Haber wrote:
>> I am concerned about "bad" people sending mail to test-list-outgoing
>> instead of test-list. Is that a security risk? Would it be adviseable
>> to configure the MTA not to accept external mail to
>> test-list-outgoing?
>
>Yes, in Exim you can do this by creating a director like this:
>
>##  DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION  ###########################################
>
>majordomo_aliases:
>  # this director is used for Majordomo 'private' aliases, such as
>  # <list>-mkdigest. the condition ensures only mail from Majordomo can
>  # go to these aliases, so people can't put stuff directly into archives
>  driver = aliasfile
>  file = /etc/aliases.majordomo
>  search_type = lsearch
>  user = majordom
>  group = mail
>  condition = "${if eq {$received_protocol}{local} \
>              {${if eq {$sender_ident}{majordom} \
>              {true}{false}}}{false}}"
>
>Replace /etc/aliases.majordomo with wherever the alias file containing
>the -outgoing aliases is. You might also want to put the -mkdigest and
>-mkarchive addresses in there, which add files to digests and
>archives.

So I have to put the "internal" aliases into a different aliasfile?

Greetings
Marc

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