Charles Cazabon wrote:
>
> Please don't cc: me; I'm on the list, and I set Mail-Followup-To:
> appropriately.
>
No problemo. Sorry about that.
> Judson Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Show us the unedited output of qmail-showctl, and the real bounce
> > > message -- don't obscure your domain information.
> > >
> >
> > Well, now, that's never a good idea in a open forum, y'know.
>
> As you said, your choice. You may wish to purchase asbestos underwear
> if you want to make that choice in this list.
>
Well, considering I work for an intrusion detection company,
my awareness is always on security.
> > > Nope. This is indicative that you have failed to understand the purpose
> > > of the rcpthosts file. You want to enable selective relaying -- search
> > > the list archives.
> >
> > Actually, I thought understood it pretty well, as I've tried really
> > hard to make /etc/tcp.smtp to work right.
> >
> > [root@host bin]# more /etc/tcp.smtp
> > 192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> > *.domain.com:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> > 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> >
> > which is supposed to allow me to e-mail out, correct?
>
> Mostly. One problem is that the syntax of the second line is incorrect.
> Also, did you recompile the above into /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb after changing
> the above? And does your qmail-smtpd/run file invoke tcpserver in such
> a way as to actually use the above rules?
>
> Use "tcprulescheck" to see if your .cdb file actually contains the rules
> you think it does.
Did that. It barfed this time around. Misconfiguration. ARGH.
>
> > Yes, it never worked; therefore I did a hack with the rcpthosts just
> > to be able to send an e-mail to anything not domain.com!
>
> Common newbie error; no offense.
No offense taken. I'm a qmail newbie, though not a sendmail newbie.
I switched for all good security reasons.
>
> > Thanks. The output of qmail-showtcl is below. Scrubbed, of course.
>
> Sorry, I stopped trying to read scrubbed output long ago. I just can't
> handle "host.domain.com" anymore.
>
Understand. Thanks for the help,
Jud.
