"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
domain.tld. 86400 MX 200 nnn.nn.nn.nnn
^
This is your problem.
An MX record may ONLY point to a A record machine name. Fix your DNS and
I can guarantee that
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
And add a line in control/smtproutes too; otherwise you'll
bounce messages as qmail mistakenly interprets that it is supposed
to be the end recipient. This starts
Of David L. Nicol
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:10 PM
To: Timothy L. Mayo
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: secondary mail relay: rcpthosts AND SMTPROUTES
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
And
HI,
I will explain ght eproblem with an example...
I have a domain called foo.com . Till now all the users of this domain were
at a remote location and my main qmail server on the internet was delivering
the mail to the this remote server. Till now the configuration that i had
done was just
, President
WebFusionDevelopmentIncorporated
-Original Message-
From: davis [mailto:davis]On Behalf Of Eric Davis
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 11:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: secondary mail relay
What is the best way to send email's already in a remote queue to a user
account
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:13:38 -0600 , "Dustin Miller" writes:
configure qmail to queue mail for foo.com,
attempting delivery to a mail.foo.com when it receives mail bound for
foo.com, and holding that mail
"Timothy L. Mayo" wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, David L. Nicol wrote:
And add a line in control/smtproutes too; otherwise you'll
bounce messages as qmail mistakenly interprets that it is supposed
to be the end recipient. This starts happening only after you
actually modify the MX
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 06:02:11AM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote:
205.218.58.194:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
208.134.228.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
208.178.56.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
snip
I won't bother hiding the IPs as this is readily available information...
The box I am
on the qmail page.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 7:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: relay-ctrl 1.2 - doesn't work
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:20:55 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
It does work-- I'm using it now
Hello,
I tried to setup relay-ctrl on a new machine, but it doesn't work.
relay-ctrl-allow writes the IP in the spool dir, but does not make a
new cdb file. relay-ctrl-age (executed via cron) builds a new cdb file
every five minutes. So I have to wait up to 5 minutes to relay a mail.
It's
It does work-- I'm using it now, but I can't see what you've missed
here. Is anything showing up in the spool directory,
/opt/relay-ctrl/spool? Does it exist? Are you positive you have the
names of the rules files correct?
Jon
At 11:16 PM +0100 12/1/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I
At 1:30 AM +0100 12/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The IPs are written to the spool dir and relay-ctrl-age creates a new
cdb file every 5 minutes via cron. It's strange. Are there other relay
solutions which works?
Hmmm... are you using the same cdb files for your qmail-smtpd
invocation
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:38:31 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
At 1:30 AM +0100 12/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The IPs are written to the spool dir and relay-ctrl-age creates a new
cdb file every 5 minutes via cron. It's strange. Are there other relay
solutions which works?
Hmmm... are you using
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:20:55 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
It does work-- I'm using it now, but I can't see what you've missed
here. Is anything showing up in the spool directory,
/opt/relay-ctrl/spool? Does it exist? Are you positive you have the
names of the rules files correct?
The IPs
At 1:51 AM +0100 12/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cdbdump /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb | tr '\0' :
I have no cdbdump,
Get it with the cdb package at
http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Very useful.
but I can relay mails, after cron executed
relay-ctrl-age. So I fetch mails via POP3, but cannot relay
On 1 Dec 99, at 16:38, Jon Rust wrote:
At 1:30 AM +0100 12/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The IPs are written to the spool dir and relay-ctrl-age creates a new
cdb file every 5 minutes via cron. It's strange. Are there other
relay solutions which works?
Hmmm... are you using the same cdb
Why don't you change your 'fullname' to not have those crappy hi-bit ansi
characters?
And what does 'not relay for special sender domain' mean? You want to be an
open relay, but not relay if from one domain? They'd just change their
domain name...
If you want selective relaying, read FAQ 5.4
¹è¼º½Ä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use qmail-1.03 + mysql at RedHat 6.0 for free mail service.
I set control/rcpthosts as empty so my mailserver is open relay.
I want selectively not relay for special sender domain to prevent spam mail.
How can I configure qmail to be a selective non-relay
OK, but what would I search for in the log to see the addresses that were
rejected?
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, DOODS wrote:
All connections are logged by tcpserver. Before, mine was in /var/adm or
/var/log. If you want to have the logs for tcpserver on a separate file,
install daemontools. (Forgot
At 05:04 PM 11/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
I suspect what you mean is that you want to log attempts to use your SMTP
server as a relay. That would not be logged by tcpserver, and qmail-smtpd
(which is doing the actual rejecting, of the recipients, not the connection)
doesn't emit any logging
Fred Lindberg wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:24:28 +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay" when
people use "%...@domain" in the to field. I have tried to
make qmail give some response of the same kind, but I hav
"%" in it (which is
completely legal in the local part) you want to refuse delivery? Or only
for local deliveries? The reason that the control file is called
percenthack, is that it's not a standard, it's just a kludge to ask a
particular host to relay to somewhere else, originall
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:33:14 +0100, Hans Sandsdalen wrote:
I would prefer a solution where qmail responded with this message
when it is talking to the "other end" (not accept the mail at all).
qmail does not accept a mail when the from field is in the
badmailfrom file :)
qmail-smtpd.c. Look
Hi~
I use qmail-1.03 + mysql at RedHat 6.0 for free mail service.
I set control/rcpthosts as empty so my mailserver is open relay.
I want selectively not relay for special sender domain to prevent spam mail.
How can I configure qmail to be a selective non-relay?
I already set control
OK, I am using tcpserver to do selective relaying. Is logging done of the
connections that are rejected? If so, how do I find them. Is there
something I can grep my log file for? For reference, here's my startup
line:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -c 80 -u 80 -g 80 0 smtp
All connections are logged by tcpserver. Before, mine was in /var/adm or
/var/log. If you want to have the logs for tcpserver on a separate file,
install daemontools. (Forgot the URL for this but you can find it in qmail's
homepage.)
Then replace "/var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd" in your startup
At 19:30 27.11.99 +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote:
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 06:24:28PM +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
Hi
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay" when
people use "%...@domain" in the to field. I have tried to
make qmail give some response of
At 12:10 28.11.99 +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:42:45AM +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
At 19:30 27.11.99 +0100, Magnus Bodin wrote:
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 06:24:28PM +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
Hi
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay&
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:24:28 +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay" when
people use "%...@domain" in the to field. I have tried to
make qmail give some response of the same kind, but I haven't
What's wrong with:
| ech
still my mail server is open to the outside world.
One Thing I do not have is /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file, I removed it,
will that make any difference for my attempt to crate the anti-relay mail
server?
TIA
KK
At 07:43 PM 11/25/99 +0800, you wrote:
Just curious.
Have you already compile
create the complied
tcp.smtp.cdb file and run the /usr/local/bin/tcpserver with -x
/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
But still my mail server is open to the outside world.
One Thing I do not have is /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file, I removed it,
will that make any difference for my attempt to crate the ant
Hi
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay" when
people use "%...@domain" in the to field. I have tried to
make qmail give some response of the same kind, but I haven't
succeded. Tried the wildmat-0.2-patch, but it was not for version
1.03?
I have
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 06:24:28PM +0100, Hans Sansdalen wrote:
Hi
I'm used to sendmail, the the response "We do not relay" when
people use "%...@domain" in the to field. I have tried to
make qmail give some response of the same kind, but I haven't
succeded. Tried t
Magnus Bodin writes:
You could do this at one line in that very .qmail-file:
| perl -e 'if ($ENV{DEFAULT} =~ /\%/) { print "We do not relay";exit 100;}
which checks the address and bounces them containing a %.
The problem is that the SMTP server accepts the message.
]
Betreff: Relay Problem
Hi,
I am trying to setup the the qmail-antirelay for my mail server. I did
exactly the same as mentioned on this documents.
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html
I have this entry on my /etc/tcp.smtp file
202.51.69.:allow
Hi,
I am trying to setup the the qmail-antirelay for my mail server. I did
exactly the same as mentioned on this documents.
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html
I have this entry on my /etc/tcp.smtp file
202.51.69.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
Just curious.
Have you already compiled your tcp.smtp file into cdb format?
Is your tcpserver already running?
Take a look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd for more
details.
IT Personal wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to setup the the qmail-antirelay for my mail server. I did
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Relay Problem
Hi,
I am trying to setup the the qmail-antirelay for my mail server. I did
exactly the same as mentioned on this documents.
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html
I have this entry on my /etc/tcp.smtp file
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 01:07:25PM +0100, Häffelin Holger wrote:
Easy to solve: Change your last line (:allow) to :deny. Then this setup only
allows connections from 127. and 202.51.69. . I think, that's what you want.
Are you crazy? That will block all incoming mail, except those sent from
server to relay emails
Sei Heng
Ricardo Cerqueira wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 01:07:25PM +0100, Häffelin Holger wrote:
Easy to solve: Change your last line (:allow) to :deny. Then this setup only
allows connections from 127. and 202.51.69. . I think, that's what you want.
Are you crazy
machine that is not
part of the local network to use the mail server to relay emails
No. Whether he is actually crazy may be subject to debate, but what he
suggested is wrong. :deny as the last line of his rules file will cause SMTP
connections that are not coming from his local LAN to be denied
and outgoing mail from
any remote machine.
I think by doing what he say, we will be able to disallow machine that is not
part of the local network to use the mail server to relay emails
No. Whether he is actually crazy may be subject to debate, but what he
suggested is wrong. :deny as the last
incoming and outgoing mail from
any remote machine.
I think by doing what he say, we will be able to disallow machine that is not
part of the local network to use the mail server to relay emails
No. Whether he is actually crazy may be subject to debate, but what he
suggested is wrong. :deny
just fine.
:)
Philip
From: IT Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 15:01:03 +0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Relay Problem
Hi,
I am trying to setup the the qmail-antirelay for my mail server. I did
exactly the same as mentioned on this documents.
http://qmail
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On 25 Nov 99, at 10:06, Philip Gabbert wrote:
Right.. that's exactly what's going to happen. If you take a good at the
document, it will say that :allow is rather contradictarary to the
relaying exercise. :allow with no IP address will allow
.
You DO want to allow connections; the "trick" is to create an env. variable
named RELAYCLIENT when a connection comes from one of the specified networks. If that
variable doesn't exist, qmail won't relay, but will still allow connections.
Resuming, his file is OK. Something els
Sorry.. I meant relay, not use :)
From: "Petr Novotny" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: ANTEK CS
Date: 25 Nov 1999 17:10:49 -
To: Philip Gabbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Relay Problem
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On 25 Nov 99
No. Whether he is actually crazy may be subject to debate
Erm... I didn't mean to say Häffelin Holger is literally crazy :)
My apologies to Häffelin for any misunderstandigs.
Ricardo
--
+---
| Ricardo Cerqueira - [EMAIL
makes no sense. By setting RELAYCLIENT you tell qmail to ignore rcpthosts
file and so you can relay.
Sorry, I shocked you this way. It was not my intention!
CU
Holger
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Ricardo Cerqueira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 25. November 1999
but it seems
like I am still an open relay! What is wrong?!
What I want to do is allow any user on my C-net / LAN to send mail thru the
SMTP server without any limitations, and the world only send/recive mails
either to or from a @company address.
LOCALHOST: can send as who-ever@what-ever to anyone
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:23:26AM +0800, Michael Boman wrote:
I am running tcpserver with following syntrax:
tcpserver -v -H -R -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 100 -u 1001 -g 101 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3
This won't direct STDERR to splogger. You'll miss
I have applied mySQL patch to qmail and hacked it so all mails going to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will be redirect to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And I am VERY sure that I am still an open relay.
Best regards,
Michael Boman
-Original Message-
From: Chris Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
?
Best regards
Michael Boman
-Original Message-
From: cstone [mailto:cstone]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November, 1999 21:23 PM
To: Michael Boman
Cc: Qmail
Subject: Re: Help! I am still a open relay!!
have you tried running tcprulescheck against you smtp.cdb
I have been following the instructions in
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html but it seems
like I am still an open relay! What is wrong?!
What I want to do is allow any user on my C-net / LAN to send mail thru the
SMTP server without any limitations, and the world only
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:23:26AM +0800, Michael Boman wrote:
I have been following the instructions in
http://qmail-docs.surfdirect.com.au/docs/qmail-antirelay.html but it seems
like I am still an open relay! What is wrong?!
What I want to do is allow any user on my C-net / LAN to send
Hi!
I need help on this one.
I am running qmail with tcpserver. What my tcp.smtp file contains is
:allow and I have my rcpthosts and virtualdomains file in place.
What I want to happen is to accept mails for all my hosted and local
domains but not act as a relay to save CPU usage. I have my
generally mail sent to postmaster go to a mailbox which is never checked,
some ppl even redirect those mails to /dev/null. try informing the root
about this...
If they aren't reading postmaster email, they probably aren't reading root
email (if there is even a root account) either.
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 01:09:43PM +0200,
dd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
errm, again "generally" mail sent to root is fwd'ed to admin's account.
if not, this is a sign of carelessness to me.
On various unix systems. However not all systems are unix systems.
The RFC defined contact address is
What do you guys do when you find an open relay?
(I already sent a message to postmaster with no response)
Is there a forum to report this?
I just got spammed through mailadm.gdl.up.mx. My relay attempt is:
telnet mailadm.gdl.up.mx 25
Trying 192.100.179.1...
Connected to mailadm.gdl.up.mx
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:28:17AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
What do you guys do when you find an open relay?
(I already sent a message to postmaster with no response)
I usually let the upstream connectivity provider know aswell.
james
--
James Raftery (JBR54) - Programmer Hostmaster IE
What do you guys do when you find an open relay?
(I already sent a message to postmaster with no response)
Is there a forum to report this?
generally mail sent to postmaster go to a mailbox which is never checked,
some ppl even redirect those mails to /dev/null. try informing the root
generally mail sent to postmaster go to a mailbox which is never checked,
some ppl even redirect those mails to /dev/null. try informing the root
about this...
The staff at our installation tries to check postmaster mail, but with between
1000 and 11000 Email usually in it, it takes a
I usually just cc postmaster and send mail to admin/abuse. It gets a response
more often that way I find. Or lookup the tech contact for the domain and ignore
postmaster.
Greg Moeller wrote:
generally mail sent to postmaster go to a mailbox which is never checked,
some ppl even redirect
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 08:55:08PM +0200,
dd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you guys do when you find an open relay?
(I already sent a message to postmaster with no response)
Is there a forum to report this?
generally mail sent to postmaster go to a mailbox which is never
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On 9 Nov 99, at 15:16, Thomas Foerster wrote:
I accept mail for businessakademie.com. But then, i need to connect to
195.30.221.30 and then send the received mail to there.
You might consider using smtproutes if you only want to override
DNS.
I am trying to figure out how to set up qmail on a firewall that will
close an open relay. I have qmail on an internal machine which actually
serves the mail to the users (via POP3).
All of our internal mail clients use the internal box as their
SMTP server.
I have tried to set up rcpthosts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 28 October 1999 at 07:26:56 -0500
I am trying to figure out how to set up qmail on a firewall that will
close an open relay. I have qmail on an internal machine which actually
serves the mail to the users (via POP3).
All of our internal
I am having a problem with QMail and relaying -
When I send mail from my machine, relay it through the qmail machine,
off to a site that uses the MAPS/DUL list for blocking, it bounces. I
purposely blocked all the IP's on the DULs list except the mail relay.
What it looks like to me
Hi,
has anyone got an implementation of
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt
It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm.
for qmail maildirs?
- guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM.
thanks
peter
--
peter
It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm.
for qmail maildirs?
- guess it would be kinda like serialmail, but not, IYSWIM.
thanks
peter
--
peter at gradwell dot com; http://www.gradwell.com/
gradwell dot com Ltd. Enabling
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Peter Gradwell wrote:
See http://www.qmail.org/turnmail
Hi,
has anyone got an implementation of
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2645.txt
It's On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) - SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
by Randall Gellens of Qualcomm
Emmanuel Nee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've a pop server in Zurich (headquater) which we cuurently point our
mail to. The problem is that larger mail attachment take a long time to
download into the local drive though we have a lease line connected.
This mail server configuration I do not have
Hi,
I've a pop server in Zurich (headquater) which we cuurently point our
mail to. The problem is that larger mail attachment take a long time to
download into the local drive though we have a lease line connected.
This mail server configuration I do not have previledge to change. How
can I make
Just FYI:
I ran "wc /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb" and as I said I got no errors, but it
might be helpful to give you the results (listed below):
0 1082379 /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
Dave Sill wrote:
Ryan Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sep 27 19:56:17 portal qmail: tcpserver: warning:
what form of the chown command did you use? It should have been a "chown
-R".
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ryan Sharon wrote:
Well, you helped me with one of my problems: permissions were set with
the root uid.
I did chown qmaild on it, but I am still having the same problems.
Someone else
Greetings.
I've just put version 1.2 of the relay-ctrl package on my web site at:
http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/
This is a package that allows SMTP-after-POP3 with the qmail set of
tools, similar to the "open-smtp" package by Russell Nelson, but without
requiring
Well, I tried 'wc /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb' and recieved no errors, but I
haven't had a chance to recompile to a different directory; I am going
to do this though to /var which resides on a seperate partition.
In regards to pop3: I stand corrected. The problems I am experiencing
do not seem to
Quoting Chuck Milam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Petr Novotny wrote:
What I guess you describe is that: Somewhere inside your network, you
have an open relay (addressable from internet). Your blacklisted
machine is a smart host for that open relay. You can't do anything
Bryan Ischo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Bryan Ischo wrote:
Hi all.
I have a somewhat complicated situation for which the simplest solution
is
a mail relay. I want a completely open mail relay that will accept mail
to be d
Hey everyone,
I am having trouble getting tcpserver to behave. I can send from one
local user to another with no problems; it just doesn't want to let my
clients relay and it refuses SMTP connections from the outside world.
The error I get in my syslog is:
Sep 27 19:56:17 portal
Chris Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:45:19AM +0200, Ana Belén Santos wrote:
I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as a relay. I
have used tcpserver, but I only can restrict the access controling the
IP of the sender and I want to control the email address
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Ana [iso-8859-1] Belén Santos wrote:
Chris Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:45:19AM +0200, Ana Belén Santos wrote:
I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as a relay. I
have used tcpserver, but I only can restrict the access controling
I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as a relay. I
have used tcpserver, but I only can restrict the access controling the
IP of the sender and I want to control the email address of the sender,
not the IP. Is this possible?? How can I do that??
Thanks
Ana Belén Santos Pintor
, September 22, 1999 11:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: smtp server as a relay
I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as a relay. I
have used tcpserver, but I only can restrict the access controling the
IP of the sender and I want to control the email address
MTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 12:09 PM
To: Van Liedekerke Franky
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: smtp server as a relay
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
This is also within the standard functionallity of tcpserver, but I
don't
believe it
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Ana Belén Santos wrote:
Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
This is also within the standard functionallity of tcpserver, but I don't
believe it is secure to allow relaying based on email address only.
Franky
Yes, I know it, but could you tell how
:allow,RELAYCLIENT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Of course, now ANYONE who puts that email address in their FROM (or is it
envelope-sender?) field can relay through you.
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Ana [iso-8859-1] Belén Santos wrote:
I want to allow selected clients to use my smtp server as
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On 12 Sep 99, at 12:15, Sebastian Andersson wrote:
I just got a nasty letter from ORBS telling me that one of my SMTP
servers was an open relay.
If you told us the IP of your machine so that we could look up on
the ORBS site the exact problem
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:47:14AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote:
If you told us the IP of your machine so that we could look up on
the ORBS site the exact problem, we could be more helpful.
I guess I didn't express myself clear enough. The problem is fixed.
I just thought someone might be
I just got a nasty letter from ORBS telling me that one of my SMTP
servers was an open relay.
The host was a secondary mailserver for some of our domains and it had
no hosts in locals and a correctly configured rcpthosts. Its virtualhosts
was also empty and it was not configured to allow percent
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Sebastian Andersson wrote:
I just got a nasty letter from ORBS telling me that one of my SMTP
servers was an open relay.
The host was a secondary mailserver for some of our domains and it had
no hosts in locals and a correctly configured rcpthosts. Its virtualhosts
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, James J. Lippard wrote:
I agree with Sam on this one. My experience supports his view. I've
never seen any systematic attempts to grab usernames via SMTP. I've seen
quite a few mailbombs with bounces, though.
Funny you should mention this. Last week I received a
message to 1000 bad
local recipients will produce exactly one bounce showing the addresses
that failed. You might as well have sent the same data directly.
Messages split when they are _successfully_ relayed or forwarded. SMTP
clients are not permitted to relay without your explicit authorization
Okay,
I have our smtp running under tcpserver and only machine in the office
can send mail through it. But now, we have people dialing in from
home and wanting to use our smtp server. They can't use the ISPs smtp
server because they want to send mail as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and most people don't
Mr. Christopher F. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 10 September 1999 at 13:45:29 -0500
Or given a list of valid usernames on one system, forge
email to that user's associates elsewhere. Or spam in
his name, etc...
All of which can be done to anybody who posts in public (like, say,
You make your users use the MSN smtp server, I have several users using our
office mailserver remotely with MSN and no reported problems sending mail
as [EMAIL PROTECTED] through MSN's smtp servers. I *assume* that MSN lets
any of its IP addresses send mail regardless of hostname.
Tim
At
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyhow, I realize that giving information "up front" on working
usernames on the system is probably at least a small security risk,
so I'd rather not do that,
I've yet to see anyone make a
I agree with Sam on this one. My experience supports his view. I've
never seen any systematic attempts to grab usernames via SMTP. I've seen
quite a few mailbombs with bounces, though.
Jim Lippard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.discord.org/
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On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:55:52PM -0400, Sam wrote:
Furthermore, you ignored the rest of my post, which compared whatever
miniscule benefit you get from practicing security through obscurity
weighed against your server now being a willing accomplice in a
denial-of-service attack. The same
I believe I've correctly configured qmail to serve as a selective relay for
local users only. Is there an easy way to test this?
Ben
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