lmtp over tcp

[Gerard Ceraso]

Andrew Morgan wrote:

>
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Gerard Ceraso wrote:
>
>> I have this setup to run but I need to add an account for postfix to
>> deliver to the Cyrus IMAP server. Is there a way to set Cyrus LMTP to
>> accept the mail without authentication?
>
>
> From /etc/cyrus.conf:
>
>   lmtp          cmd="/usr/local/cyrus/bin/lmtpd -a" listen="lmtp"
> prefork=0
>
>
> Note the "-a" option (see 'man lmtpd').  You'll want to lock down
> connections to lmtpd to only trusted mail relays though.
>
> From /etc/hosts.deny:
>
> lmtp: ALL EXCEPT LOCAL, your.mail.relay
>
>
>     Andy
>
Thanks thats exactly what I needed. I should of probably looked in the
man pages for that one. I was planning on securing it by having a
seperate private interface to transfer from the smtp server to imap
server. This way it won't add to the imap traffic from clients.

Gerard
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