On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:10:21AM -0000, David Killingsworth wrote:
> I have narrowed this to one simple item. Could someone, possibly you Gerrit
> I know you have answered one way to get around this I just wanna understand
> why I have to get around it, explain to me why qmail has delivered an email
> to me that contains the following header:
>
> Received: from unknown (HELO dali.onevision.de) (@212.77.172.50)
> by mail.myweb.net with SMTP; 14 May 2001 08:59:56 -0000
>
> I have tcpserver -DUvp wrapping smtpd for qmail.
>
> Shouldn't tcpserver drop the connection when $TCPREMOTEIP is DNS'd to
> a hostname and $TCPREMOTEHOST is DNS'd to an IP. if $TCPREMOTEIP can't
> be resolved or if $TCPREMOTEHOST can't be resolved, shouldn't this cause
> a FATAL in tcpserver? and it will drop the incoming connection?
tcpserver *only* rejects connections if told to do so by the rules
supplied with -x or -X. What rules have you tried?
You should be able to get tcpserver to drop connections that do not
have TCPREMOTEHOST set by putting these entries in your rules:
=.:allow
:deny
Regards.
>
> David.
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001 10:51:33 +0200, "Gerrit Pape" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote :
>
> > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:30:44AM -0000, David Killingsworth wrote:
> > > I have been running qmail for about 8 months, It works great.
> > > So far I have not been able to resolve on problem.
> > > When an smtp connection comes in we only want to connect
> > > with servers who have forward and reverse DNS that match.
> > >
> > I allready anwered your question in alt.comp.mail.qmail some days ago.
> What
> > is wrong with my answer?
> >
> > Gerrit.
> >
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