Scott Zielsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Please don't cc: me on your list messages [...]
>
> While learning anything necessarily about linux or qmail from
> you may be dubious, I will definitely learn perfection :)
>
> My humblest apologies that I failed to remove your personal
> address. But only a 1000 a day? Really?
Despite the smiley, that first paragraph sounds supiciously insulting.
And why are you trying to turn this into a dicksize war?
> > > 7. I put a blank rcpthosts file in the /var/qmail/control directory.
> >
> > Bad. Bad. Bad. Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect
> > $200.
>
> And this is bad, bad, bad because why? I don't want any traffic
> coming back to the box. It does not have an MX record for the
> domain and I don't want it to.
Big question: if you don't want the box to receive mail over the
network, why run an SMTP daemon in the first place?
Oh, I see -- later on, you state you _do_ want it to receive mail over
the network.
[...]
> I have closed the open relay state - which is the only state I could
> run qmail in and get it to relay when I started posting to this group
> seeking the accumulated wisdom of the 'umma'. Now, I have accepted the
> orthodoxy of the priests of tcpserver, vanquished the satanic xinetd,
> and can selective relay! Hallelujah!!!!
I think you've made things much more complex than necessary. There is
lots of documentation on selective relaying with qmail and tcpserver.
> I think the problem with the run script may be that I was subbing
> "zero" for "oh" or vice versa in the command line. My telnet
> client and my eyes don't work so well differentiating between the
> two.
Yes, this will bite you.
Charles
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