Am Fr, den 23.12.2005 schrieb Jon D. Slater um 22:46: > I'm using my FC4 box as a mail server (and also running Mailman). Doesn't tell us which MTA you run. > It's starting to look like I may need to open up the SMTP server to > "outside access". > > Since I don't want to become a SPAM gateway, I'd like to restrict access > to just a few people. But, there's a catch. > > Some of my "customers" uses a dial-up connection and aways appears from > a different IP address every time they connect. So adding them to the > allow/deny list could be tricky. Right. So gods invented SMTP AUTH for this case ;) > How do I get the SMTP require a password? And, is that secure enough to > keep spammer's from using my mail server? http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html Just be aware that with FC4 the location for the SSL certs changed to /etc/pki/. > Jon If you don't run Sendmail you will find other howtos for different MTAs like Postfix or Exim in the net as well. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 22:51:53 up 19 days, 3:28, load average: 0.21, 0.39, 0.35
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