Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:11:21 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Raoul Schroeder <memphis_ms@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: qmail does not accept e-mail (cont.) Message-ID: <20000822191121.25500.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> In-Reply-To: <39A29B37.E8FD8E14@gmx.net>
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Raoul Schroeder wrote: > > >I temporarily disabled all the tcpwrappers in hosts.allow (allowing > > >anything), still no success... > > Okay, I was wrong here. That is exactly the problem. If I allow anything, > then qmail works fine in every respect. Byt I don't want to allow > everything... > Which line do I need in hosts.allow for qmail? I tried qmail, qmail-smtpd, > qmail-start, qmail-rspawn, and a few others. sendmail is still allowed, > too, if it goes via the mailwrapper. > > Can somebody help with this one? there are a lot of ways to deny access to your smtp service. one of them is with /etc/hosts.allow where you can stop certain domains, or IP blocks from accessing your qmail-smtpd service. another way is to allow anyone to connect to qmail-smtpd but set your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts files to allow incoming mail from smtp only if it is directed to a recipient in your own domain(s?). for instance, if you have qmail controlling the mail for domain hell.gr you can add to your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts: % cat /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts hell.gr .hell.gr and be done with it. another way is to run qmail-smtpd under tcpserver, as someone else suggested (tcpserver comes with ucspi-tcp), and use Dan Berstein's tcpserver and friends to build your own lists of domains that are allowed to relay mail through your qmail-smtpd. well, these are more or less the alternatives, unless i forgot some. you can try them all and pick what suits you best in terms of configurability and ease of maintenance in the long term :-) - giorgos keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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