SUMMARY Using TCP Wrappers to wrap sendmail

From: Stephen LaBelle <labelles_at_mscd.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 18:55:55 -0600 (MDT)

Hello All,

[MY ORIGINAL POSTING]

> I would like to use TCP Wrappers to wrap sendmail.
>
> What I am trying to accomplish is that these machines can send email
> outbound, but will not accept any in-coming email.

First thanks to all the respondants.

Since all I really want to do is keep certain machines from accepting
incoming email, the following is a better/simplier solution than
TCP Wrappers:

[THE QUICK&DIRTY ANSWER]

        Then just don't run the sendmail daemon. If there is no sendmail
        daemon to accept mail, well, the machine won't accept mail.
        If you are concerned about queued mail, just run sendmail as a
        cron job every so often.


That solves the problem, thanks again to all that responded.

                                                Steve


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