Ashe Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The system "works" but will not receive mail from outside the select few I
> list in the /etc/hosts.allow file.
Others have replied with correct information as well, but this is the crux of
your problem. To receive mail from the net at large, you have to accept
connections from the net at large.
Relaying is another matter entirely. qmail will relay (in a normal setup)
only when the RELAYCLIENT environment variable is set. So what you want to do
is accept connections from any IP address, and conditionally set this variable
to an empty value for only those IP addresses you wish to allow to relay. The
easiest way to do this is to run qmail-smtpd from tcpserver instead of
inetd/xinetd. If you use this configuration, you're also much more likely to
be able to find help/user-contributed documentation that applies to your
setup.
Charles
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