That's my understanding, based on man rblsmtpd. So, is it better to run through port 25 with rbl transparent, or run though 587 with no rbl but with authorization? Wouldn't the authorization be unnecessary from SM on localhost?
Bill Kwok wrote: > Hi Slamp, > > Thank you for the clarification but sorry for my ignorance. If we have > the *127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT="",RBLSMTPD=""* in tcp.smtp, will the > RBLSMTPD process still be involved, but just return a "pass" status? > > Best regards, > Bill > > > On 2/8/07, *slamp slamp* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Thanks Erik for making the change in the future SM rpm. > > Bill, > To me the real benefit of using the submission port is speed and > reliability. The stock SM uses smtp to send mail and gets checked > for RBLs. The reason the submission was added was to provide a way > of sending without being checked for RBLs but still required to > authenticate. > > Eric, > I have done this once, SM on a different host from QT. That was > REALLY SLOW even on a 100mbps connection. So I just decided to > implement proxy in apache and now it's alot faster. > > > On 2/7/07, *Jake Vickers* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Eric "Shubes" wrote: > > Now you've got me thinking, Bill. (which is sometimes dangerous!) > > > > For the stock toaster, you bring up a good point. > > > > What if I were an Enterprise type of user and wanted to run SM > on a separate > > host from the toaster? How difficult would that be? Can the > toaster be > > packaged in such a way as to make this easier, without > 'hurting' the stock > > toaster? IOW, make them loosely (minimally) coupled? > > > Look at the config.pl file for SM. It's in > /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/ > You should be able to edit all the functions, and tell it what IMAP > server to utilize. I haven't messed with this in a long time, > but you > may also be able to adjust the port. So in theory, yes, you > could use SM > on a different server and just have it IMAP to your real mail > server. > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
