Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2429 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Sandy Drobic
> <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Then why not use a private ip address instead of an invalid one.
>
> I am using a valid public IP address. I'd just rather not post it publicly.

That's not necessary, but a private ip address would prevent some of the 
irritation that are cause by such misleading obfuscation. Especially since the 
problem had to do with connection to an ip.

> >  In that case yast borked and didn't change it to all:
> >
> >  postconf -e "inet_interfaces = all"
> >  rcpostfix stop
> >  rcpostfix start
>
>
> Even though postconf reports "postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> multiple entries for "inet_interfaces"" (Because I manually
> uncommented it and restarted the service afterwards), that actually
> fixed it.

Okay, just make sure that you
- only accept valid recipients
- your config only allows trusted users/clients to relay
- set up basic spam prevention measures.

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Sandy

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