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Re: qmail & pam was Re: Protecting sendmail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Block)
Fri Nov 8 09:39:21 1996
In-Reply-To: <19961108085324.27378.qmail@brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:22:26 -0500
To: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
From: Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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At 3:53 AM -0500 11/8/96, Eric Smith wrote:
>I wrote some stuff about the advantages of qmail, and using it to prevent
>unauthorized use of a machine as a mail relay.
>
>Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org> writes:
>> 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.
>...
>> 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?
>
>There may be a more elegant solution for this, but my approach is to run
>qmail on two separate mail relays, one for inbound mail, and one for outbound.
That was my initial idea as well. I hadn't wanted to set up another host,
but I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet.
It'll still be a lot less pain than sendmail.
Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
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