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From: Cameron Slye <cslye@info.infosite.com>
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Subject: Re: Blocking access to Popper from outside
To: compland@ism.com.br (Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
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> Hi:
> 
>   Is there a way to block people checking their mail in POPPER from outside
> the local network ? Let me explain better: I have some dial in users that
> are checking their mail remotely, from another network, through the WAN
> port. I checked the POPPER man page but no luck. This can be done by
> ip-filtering ? I can't figure how. Any help would be greatly appreciated !


TCP wrappers on the port would be the best bet...  They are in the ports
collection, I would recomend compiling it with the extended cheching option,
this allowing you to have a hosts.allow file that you can define what can
and cant do what on what port...