Re: tcpserver, AUTHREQUIRED and regular expressions

On 24.11.2008 14:24, Aiko Barz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know if there is a patch that allows regular expressions
> within the tcpserver configuration?
>
> At the moment, I use the following lines
>
> =.adsl.alicedsl.de:allow,AUTHREQUIRED="",SMTPAUTH="TLSREQUIRED", ...
> =.dip.t-dialin.net:allow,AUTHREQUIRED="",SMTPAUTH="TLSREQUIRED", ...
> [...]
>
> to force ADSL users to authenticate first before talking to the SMTP
> server. The ADSL users are still able to relay, while many botnet members
> fail to deliver their mails directly.
>
> It would be nice to write it like this:
> ~\.adsl\.:allow,AUTHREQUIRED="",SMTPAUTH="TLSREQUIRED", ...
> ~\.dhcp\.:allow,AUTHREQUIRED="",SMTPAUTH="TLSREQUIRED", ...
> (I know, it is dangerous. Those lines are just examples to get the idea.)
>
> So long,
>     Aiko
>   
Not the answer you were looking for, but this solves yours and a lot of
other problems ...

Best practice today is to provide a submission server on port 587 for
authenticated users.
http://www.maawg.org/port25

In Qmail-LDAP this is easy to achieve, by just making a copy of your
service-folder and adjust the port number in the run script.

Regards

Alain Wolf