Re: [Sheflug] sendmail & cannons

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 21:49, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> I have played with qmail but it is a bugger to set up to relay for my
> subnet - it doesn't directly have a list of subnets it will relaying for
> you have to set it up as an open relay and have tcpd do it's access
> control for it (I didn't have tcpd on the machine so I left it alone).

What tosh :)

You put config files in /var/qmail/control. rcpthosts controls which
domains it will receive for (i.e., accept either for delivery or relay).
Only those domains _also_ listed in locals are then delivered locally.
So, it's not an open relay. I have it set up in xinetd, works a treat.

It's literally 100x harder to set it up as an open relay, I'm sure.

As for "when would I want to canonify?", it's when you're a lazy git at
you want the mail [at] otherlocal addresses to be delivered to the
otherlocal.mylocaldomain server or something. It rewrites the envelope,
IIRC, but I can't think of any good reason for/against having it (well,
good reasons against might include dial-on-demand, but you know what I
mean ;)

Cheers,

ALex.

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