RE: [vps-mail] Filtering Service IP Subnets for virtual SMTP?

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, October 1, 2004 1:17 am, Martin Fischer said:
> Bennet,
>
> thank you, I am aware of hosts.allow, but we need to filter incoming smtp
> connections only by domain i.e. for a certain user. So we are looking for
> a procmail recipe to filter ?

I guess I'm completely confused about what problem you are trying to
solve. Can you give some examples?

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bennett Lanford
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:16 AM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Filtering Service IP Subnets for virtual SMTP?
>
> Martin Fischer wrote:
>
>>for blocking direct delivery to SMTP we want to make use of
>>filtering service i.e. only a certain IP may send mail to
>>our virtual SMTPs.
>>
>>We would need advice how to configure IP blocking for
>>subhosted domains?
>>
>>Thanks a lot for any hints!
>
> I can think of lots of ways to do what you want to do (if I understand
> your question). For blocking all but a certain IP, the hosts.allow file
> comes to mind. You allow a specific IP, then deny the rest. In VPS2:
>
> sendmail : 12.34.56.78 : allow
> sendmail : ALL : deny
>
> (IIRC, on VPS1, replace "sendmail" with "smtp".)
>
> See http://www.viaverio.com/support/vps/advanced/controlling_services.cfm
> for more information on VPS2; also the /etc/hosts.allow file itself ...
>
> --
> Bennett Lanford
> ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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