Subject: Re: anti-relay (check_rcpt) and pine no good?

From: [email-masked] (Dan Busarow)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 02:16:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] (Greg Mortensen) writes:
> Has anyone tried the anti-gateway (ie. check_rcpt) ruleset (from 
> http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca/email/check.html) with the Pine 
> mailer?

I have those rules installed and use Pine.  Works just fine.  However,
Pine lets user configure their domain name for the From: line.  I doubt
they would all set it to something goofy, but maybe your rules like
user, user@localhost, user@host and [email-masked] but do not
like user@domain.

Take a look in your syslog, the bounces get recorded there so you should
be able to see what the rule doesn't like.

Dan
--  
 Dan Busarow
 DPC Systems / BeachNet
 Dana Point, California

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From: [email-masked] (Claus Assmann)
Date: 12 Dec 1996 09:07:05 +0100

>I have those rules installed and use Pine.

The problem is with a new Pine version which talks SMTP to sendmail,
but uses sendmail -bs. In this case, the ${client_addr} is 0 :-(
So you need to add
R0			$@ ok		client_addr is 0 for sendmail -bs
before
R$={LocalIP}.$*		$@ ok		from here

This solved the problem.  The Web page and the HACKs have been
updated.

Regards,

Claus Assmann
-- 
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
                -- Albert Einstein
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