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qmail & pam was Re: Protecting sendmail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Block)
Fri Nov 8 00:24:38 1996
In-Reply-To: <19961108034011.26856.qmail@brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:48:17 -0500
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From: Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
Cc: eric@brouhaha.com
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At 10:40 PM -0500 11/7/96, Eric Smith wrote:
>Qmail is more efficient that sendmail, and easier to configure. It only
>took me three hours to unpack qmail, read the documentation, build and
>install it, and set up two virtual domains. I was *never* able to get a
>comparable configuration working with sendmail, despite 20 to 30 hours of
>messing with it. And since qmail has a much simpler design and runs very
>little stuff as root, it is much more secure.
Amen! Although I never had trouble getting sendmail to do virtual hosting,
I was never able to get it to route mail for a virtual domain to another
machine over uucp. This was really easy to do with qmail.
>There is an optional file /var/qmail/rcpthosts in which you can place a list
>of hosts for which you will accept mail. Any attempt to use your server to
>relay mail to hosts not in that list will be rejected by qmail's SMTP daemon.
>Your machine won't even have to generate a bounce message.
This is nice, but 95% of my users are using Eudora or Netscape as a mail
client, so my mailhub has to accept mail for any destination.
>Vlad Petersen <vladimip@iceonline.com> wrote:
>> I guess you can prevent outside world from connecting
>> to your smtp in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
>> somehow, but in this case, no one will be able to send
>> email to you either.
Have you managed to set up a qmail machine so that it will only accept mail
for outside destinations from a list of allowable ips (like the ones my
portmaster assigns), and otherwise only accept mail for stuff in
control/locals?
Has anyone tinkered up a pam-aware qmail-pop3d?
Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
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what's happened. When she gets there all she can hear is this squeaky voice
coming from down the mineshaft saying "Windows is the Operating System of
the future". Thank God she says - at least Dopey is still alive !
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