> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 1:52 PM
> First of all, I'm on the list, and I set Mail-Followup-To:
> appropriately. Please don't cc: me on your list messages; I hate
> duplicates and get 500-1000 messages a day already.
While learning anything necessarily about linux or qmail from
you may be dubious, I will definitely learn perfection :)
My humblest apologies that I failed to remove your personal
address. But only a 1000 a day? Really? Damn. Can I swap email
accounts with you? I've got you beat by at least 600. Automated
reports from a half dozen RS6000's plus the 14 UNIXWARE boxes sucking
data from the RS6000's plus email from their associated staffs
plus all the 25 or 30 messages I get from this list plus...
well, like you, I am extremely put upon. How do gods like us
do it?
> > 7. I put a blank rcpthosts file in the /var/qmail/control directory.
>
> Bad. Bad. Bad. Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect
> $200.
And this is bad, bad, bad because why? I don't want any traffic
coming back to the box. It does not have an MX record for the
domain and I don't want it to.
>
> > 8. I checked the /etc/tcp.smtp file and made sure I had my IP
> > addresses set in the rules the way I wanted them.
> [...]
> > 10. Tested by sending a message from the allowable IP range
> - success.
> > Tested by sending a message from an outside IP range - failure.
>
> Define "failure" -- no connection, or no relay?
Failure from an outside domain/IP address to relay.
> > 11. Happiness
>
> Except that you're either:
>
> 1) An open relay, or
> 2) Not accepting any mail from outside your local network
You got it big guy. I have closed the open relay state - which is
the only state I could run qmail in and get it to relay when I
started posting to this group seeking the accumulated wisdom of
the 'umma'. Now, I have accepted the orthodoxy of the priests
of tcpserver, vanquished the satanic xinetd, and can selective
relay! Hallelujah!!!!
I only want this box to accept internal traffic and relay internal
traffic outbound.
After 4 or 5 days of vexing frustration, I have accomplished
what someone else set out to do and I had to take over, learned
Linux by crash course and, quite spectacularly, proved myself a
fool. All in all, a good week.
I think the problem with the run script may be that I was subbing
"zero" for "oh" or vice versa in the command line. My telnet
client and my eyes don't work so well differentiating between the
two.
Thanks,
Scott
