Thanks for your response. Not sure if tcpwrappers
is the same thing as invoking qmail smtp
using tcpserver. I am using Eudora's latest qpopper
package.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Dinesh Punjabi wrote:
>
> > I have successfully configured ssh-client (kindof
> a telnet client) on
> > my Windows 95/NT PC. It is also configured to do
> secure port
> > forwarding, i.e. my mail client communicates with
> the local ssh client
> > which tunnels all TCP/IP packets securely to the
> machine which runs
> > POP & SMTP daemons (and sshd daemon).
> >
> > How can I configure the POP & SMTP server to ONLY
> accept secure port
> > forwarding requests ? In other words, is it
> possible to configure POP
> > & SMTP to reject any TCP/IP packets other than the
> ones that originate
> > on the local server box from the sshd daemon ?
>
> Assuming you have installed tcpserver you add rules
> to smtp.rules (and
> thence to smtp.cdb).
>
> If you're using tcpwrappers, then the rules go into
> hosts.allow and
> hosts.deny
>
> without knowing how you have setup SMTP and POP on
> your system its
> impossible to help further.
>
> How do you start qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d?
>
> Richard Letts
>
>
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