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To: ToySoldier who wrote (11423)10/19/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Respond to of 74651
 
Toy,

sendmail app?

Try a telnet <mail server> 25, i.e. talking directly to your UNIX sendmail on the remote mail server. Here's your command set:

214-This is Sendmail version 8.8.8
214-Commands:
214- HELO MAIL RCPT DATA RSET
214- NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY EXPN
214-For more info use "HELP <topic>".
214-smtp
214-To report bugs in the implementation contact Sun Microsystems
214-Technical Support.
214-For local information contact postmaster at this site.
214 End of HELP info
quit

sendmail doesn't allow you to read mail, just send it and you should have used mailx or better yet elm to both read and send email.

I have extensive experience as a UNIX admin and never have I seen an ACL for hosts, I am however curious as to what you think one is. Usually this is done with the standard passwd file, which is loaded into NIS/NIS+. Although I could create an ACL mechanism with about three lines of shell code in /etc/login to grep for uid from some nfs mounted file of allowed login hosts or even create a simple yp map to load into NIS to do this very thing.

PS: I still didn't find anything that said anything at Novell's site regarding UNIX.