From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 10 04:03:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA01692 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 04:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (jdc@milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA01687 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 04:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA09541; Sat, 10 May 1997 05:19:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 05:19:12 -0600 (MDT) From: John-David Childs To: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: smtp server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Is there an easy way to restrict users outside our netmask from being able > to use our SMTP server? They way it is now, _anyone_ can set their SMTP > server to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. Is there a way > around this? > > thanks. > http://spam.abuse.net/spam http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html#check_rcpt Be prepared to deal with a lot of users who have multiple dialup accounts and/or access the net from work via a different provider ;( -- John-David Childs (JC612) http://www.denver.net System Administrator jdc@denver.net & Network Engineer Think, Listen, Look, then ACT! "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" - Louis B Mayer