FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma)

Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by hdjjhhvvhga on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:10AM (#33517691)

I remember I implemented some modifications my boss asked me and went on a business trip to Russia. It was early 2000s, no smartphones, and the only Internet on the phone was WAP. So my boss is calling me and telling me our mail server is ending out spam. Yes, I turned on open relay by accident...

I run to the nearest Internet cafe and discovered they're blocking SSH ports. It took quite some time to unblock it, make the changes (it took less than a minute) and pray nobody intercepted my access data and make a mess before I get back. I've never felt so ashamed about my lack of professionalism in my entire life. I literally hated myself for being forced to use a public Internet cafe to configure my server.

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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by Someone on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:03AM (#33518221)

That’s why you should always have debug mode enabled. It would have allowed you to fix this issue by sending an email /s

https://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/strategies.html:

“Debugging mode has many features, including the ability to send a mail message with a program as the recipient (i.e. the program would run, with all of its input coming from the body of the message).“

I don’t know why that page follows that with “This is inappropriate” /s

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