Hi guys and gals,

I am using FC3 with KDE and Evolution as my mail client. Every day, root will receive an email about system status and so forth. In this mail, among other things, I am seeing my sendmail being used even tho I dont use anything except yahoo for my email. So im guessing that someone is using me to relay mail, right?

I turned off the sendmail service already. Is there some way that i can find what was sent through my box or make sendmail more secure?

Thanks in advance.

Xlr8films

Securing sendmail would require some research but if you are not using sendmail for anything its better just to keep it disabled.

Thanks.

Any way I can see whast was sent thru it?

Current sendmail versions will not relay email in their default configuration. Tto see what is being sent through all you have to do is read those system status messages sent to the root email account. These messages are what sendmail is sending. Your system is using sendmail to send those messages. To make a long story short there is likely nothing abnormal going on here, just system services reporting to the root account as they are supposed to.

You can always block port 25 incoming connecting to the local system using iptables to ensure that there are no connections to your local sendmail server.

/var/log/maillog anyone?