Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 12 February 1999 at 11:17:05 +0000
> I've been looking at the PIC files and maybe my ideas about putting
> all my LAN machines' local names into rcpthosts won't work.
>
> Is that right? What I really want is somewhere to list all the
> machines that are 'me' and thus should be allowed to send mail whether
> actually from the machine where qmail is running or from other
> machines on the LAN.
Thinking of it as "sending from another machine" makes this much
harder. Think of it as relaying, which is what it is, and handle it
via FAQ 5.4.
> So maybe I'm back at FAQ 5.4, however there's a problem there too,
> where is tcp-wrappers? It seems to have been superseded by ucspi-tcp
> but I don't want to do that as it seems overkill for my little system.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
What's overkill about it? Or rather, what's bad about overkill? If
your machine is like several of mine, Linux is overkill for it, and
Apache is overkill, and etc, but I use 'em anyway. No harm in having
some safety margin.
(You certainly *can* do this with inetd and tcp wrappers, my initial
setup used them. But some of the precompiled versions of wrappers may
not have the right features enabled, and generally the qmail community
is more familiar with the tcpserver approach, so we can give better
advice about it.)
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