yeah, its looking more and more like i will. its just i like using an
access list. i know what you mean about how will that work if i don't know
their domains. i just didn't explain properly. my habit is to relay for
all domains and exclude known spam domains using an accesslist. so i only
need to know the spam domains, not the ones my users are in.

shon

> On 28 Jan 2003, Terry H. Gilsenan wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 17:43, shon wrote:
>> > i am having a problem. i have setup postfix, and it is delivering
>> mail quite well. some users access their mail through a web
>> interface, and others using a outlook (or such). for those users
>> using outlook, they cannot send mail because they are not in the
>> domains i have configured postfix to relay for. i cannot possibly
>> know every domain of every user, and even that is not permanent, so
>> how do i configure postfix so i can relay for legitmate people, and
>> still block relaying by spammers.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > shon
>> >
>> > oh yeah, i know i could use pop-before-smtp, but i have another
>> setup where i use sendmail in lieu of postfix, and i just use a deny
>> list, and relay for everyone else. how might i do that in postfix?
>>
>> So how would that work if you dont know the Domains/ip's of the users?
>>
>> Just setup pop-before-smtp and be done with it.
>
> Ditto on that. It's trivial to install and set up. Either that
> or get SASL installed and learn how to do SASL AUTH. pop-before-smtp is
> easier.
>
> -Mike Saunders
> method at method dot cx

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