On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 08:09:51PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: > I have recently discovered that some mail being sent to my machine is > being denied by smtpd due to a host/ip mismatch. I value the security but > need to know this is happening. I have missed some very important mail > today because of it (don't know why I decided to check /var/log/daemon.log > just now but I am glad I did). Anyway, I was going to set up a simple > cronjob something like "grep deny /var/log/daemon.log" to let me know > about these but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this. Can I > get smail to somehow mail me immediately when this happens? Is ther > another way? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin.
Perhaps you would be better to disable this for mail; I run a corporate server with Debian and don't find it particularly practical to leave this check enabled -- I can't afford to not accept a customer's email just because their ISP has not set up reverse DNS correctly. To do that, change the line in /etc/hosts.deny which says ALL: PARANOID to ALL except in.smtpd: PARANOID Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
