On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 at 08:19, Jose De Vera wrote:
> >But my problem is this, when i use the machines address as the smtp of
> >the client to send mail it does'nt work and it says you don't have
> >permission to access this the address.
> 
> Make sure the qmail-smtpd tcprules allow your machine to acess that server
> as a relayhost. My /etc/tcprules.d/qmail-smtpd (which in turn is compiled
> into the qmail-smtpd.cdb):
> 
> :deny
> 127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> 192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

Caveat, use :deny when you're using the server as SMTP only not as MX.


> 
> Which denies all connections except those from localhost and from my LAN.
> Plus it allows localhost and LAN connections free-for-all relaying,
> meaning they can spoof all they want. This is good for me because my whole
> LAN effectively pretends to be "someone else" (I pretend I'm
> leather-collection.com which in turn is just a maildrop virtually hosted
> by TabNet, of course for us).
> 
> You could allow other interfaces without the RELAYCLIENT option and
> they'll only be allowed to send to you. I think, at least. Protection so
> you don't get tagged as an open relay.
> 
> >Also if somebody can help me on configuring also the pine program so
> >that it will be compatible with my qmail program.
> 
> Two approaches:
> 
> 1. Get a Maildir-patched Pine. Check the QMail homepage for the latest. I
> don't like this, though, because one it's patched, and two it can't keep
> up with Pine releases that fast (I've got this "thing" for using the
> latest when it comes out).
> 

Or you can drop Pine, and go for Mutt which has built-in Maildir support.


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