Hello Wil, On Monday, March 31, 2003 at 8:46:37 PM you wrote (at least in part):
>> No, the above wouldn't. Please read this sentence again, and this time >> completely: >> "If you want to be a little more aggressive about it, use the 5th line >> instead of the fourth." (in your example third instead of second). >> Quite easy: comment the second line out and remove the comment mark on >> the third line. Rather easy, even for a "copy/paste guy" > Couldn't tell from your document whether it was a comment or not. The # sign > isn't globally used by all applications. For instance try using it with > Bind. Not a pretty sight. First it wasn't 'may document', it is Matt's :-) Honor to where it belongs :-) Second: read the tcprules (_RULES_, not _server_) manual. It's pretty good written down there what the syntax of a rule file is ... Somehow important, and it explains as well how tcpserver looks up these rules. > Maybe replacing "use the 5th line instead of the fourth" with "use > the 5th line instead of the fourth by uncommenting it" would help > give the viewer the impression that that # is actually a comment. 'instead of' somehow implements they're exclusive ORed :-) So at worst one would have simply striped the line out if he didn't know for sure about comment markers :-) >> (which shouldn't administer a mail system at all if he don't want >> to read documentation, but assumes all configuration is "ready to >> be copied"). > An attempt at humor? :-) desperate humor? :-) > =:allow opens the gate wide, then :allow,RBLSMTPD="-Blocked - > comment" locks out anybody that doesn't have a reverse dns entry > with a permanent error. Nope. Reading tcprules.1 would tell you: =:allow opens the gate for those whose $TCPREMOTEHOST is set. That has the implication: - You have to enable reverse DNS lookup for tcpserver (-h or -p and avoiding '-H') while ':allow' as last fall back rule sets RBLSMTPD to a value the program 'rblsmtpd' interprets specially, as it's man page states. The leading hyphen is an indicator to block the connection. -- Best regards Peter Palmreuther "The other day I.... No, that wasn't me." -- Steven Wright
