If you restrict the IP addresses from which you can get mail you will be limited to getting mail from only those domain servers. What you want to do is empty the smtprelay.tab file, then the only way to relay a message through the server is to send authentication first. Local domain messages can be received from anyone.
Bill ps. Sending authentication when you send a message is just a check box in most mail programs. pps. Don't get faked out by the fact that you can relay messages through the server from your mail program if you don't have authentication turned on. If you have recently POPped mail xmail remembers that authentication and uses it for the mail you are relaying. If you want to confirm your server is secure then put "EnableAuthSMTP-POP3"<tab>"0" in your server.tab file to disable this feature that is enabled by default. ppps. When Davide said use smtp auth he didn't mean use the smtpauth.tab file but turn on send smtp authentication in your mail client. >---------- >From: Michael Mehrle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:49 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [xmail] Re: Mail never arrives > > >IT WORKS!!! - the solution was setting the SmartDNSHost - thanks VERY much >for helping. > >Have a great weekend and thanks for creating this software. One more >question: I understand that xmail has message relaying deactivated by >default. Do I have to set anything else to 'lock' this thing up? I am >planning to reduce the IP addresses from which smtp messages are being >accepted - anything else that I should do? > >Have a great weekend! > >Michael > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:35 PM >Subject: [xmail] Re: Mail never arrives > > >> >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Michael Mehrle wrote: >> >> > Here it is... thanks again for looking into this - I already spent two >days >> > on this. >> >> ok, the machine you installed XMail on is not able to directly perform dns >> queries, very likely due a firewall configuration. either you open >> outbound port 53 from the XMail machine in your firewall, or you use the >> dns server of your isp by setting in your server.tab : >> >> "SmartDNSHost" "IP-OF-THE-DNS-SERVER:udp" >> >> >> >> - Davide >> >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
