sendmail local daemon mode (PSARC 2008/298)

John Beck jbeck at eng.sun.com
Tue May 6 07:53:32 PDT 2008


JBeck> Runs as a daemon (like -bd) but only accepts loopback SMTP connections.

Darren> How is this check actually performed ?

With the INADDR_LOOPBACK and in6addr_loopback macros in the C code: nothing
external (like, say, TCP Wrappers :-) is relied upon for this.

-- John

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