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Re: qmail & pam was Re: Protecting sendmail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Khalid S. Al-Khater)
Fri Nov 8 02:10:58 1996
From: "Khalid S. Al-Khater" <kskhater@qatar.net.qa>
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 07:05:30 +0300
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From where can one get qmail?
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> From: Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Cc: eric@brouhaha.com
> Subject: qmail & pam was Re: Protecting sendmail?
> Date: Friday, November 08, 1996 7:48 AM
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> >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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> >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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> Has anyone tinkered up a pam-aware qmail-pop3d?
>=20
>=20
> Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
> The 7 dwarves go off to the mine and leave Snow White at home. Some =
time
> later there's a huge explosion and Snow White goes rushing off to see
> 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 !
>=20
>=20
>=20
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