Restrict Incoming Mail

Marco Benton marco at XSSNET.COM
Thu Oct 28 17:07:54 IST 2004


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Brendan Chard wrote:

>This is more of a post installation, big picture question but hopefully some
>of you have done this.
>
>I now have a FreeBSD box up and running with MS that is serving as a mail
>relay for 4 other FreeBSD boxes that actually have the user accounts on
>them.
>
>How can I restrict the FreeBSD boxes behind the mail relay server to only
>accept incoming mail from the MS relay server and localhost?  Can this be
>done while still allowing the users to send mail out through the FreeBSD
>boxes that they log into?
>
>

i would configure Sendmail to block the initial connections with the
access file and maybe even use AUTH for the users.

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