Linuxconfig generates a sendmail.cf file based on sendmail version 8.8, but the binary is 8.9. This allows people to use your server as a relay by simply doing the following: To: "someone"@yourdomain.com If someone sends an email to the above address your mail server will relay the message to "someone". This is true even if you have ip_allow or pop_auth configured. This problem will get you on the blacklist in a flash! I'm no sendmail expert. In fact, I don't have a clue where to begin to fix this. My server is full production and I can't afford to bring everything down trying to figure out how the m4 program works. The book sendmail by O'reilly 2nd addition is just as cryptic as everything else I've found regarding sendmail.
must be fixed within linuxconf or with a better config tool for sendmail.