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Subject: How do I block outside access?
From: Bo Gus <b0gu5 @ yahoo . com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:48:20 -0800 (PST)
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com


Greetings:

I have just set up v1.94.4 on a Solaris 2.5.1 system
(first time user).  My client would like to block
*all* outside access to majordomo.  I have studied 
the documentation, FAQ, a book (Managing Internet
Information Services) and archives trying to figure 
out how to do the following:
Specificaly, I want to have majordomo drop all  emails
directed to it that do not pass an array of REGEXP
filters (same idea as advertise/noadvertise).  In 
other words, the same technique used on
firewalls, namely; That which is not expressly
permitted is disallowed.  I have set up the REGEXP for
advertise/noadvertise so "lists" don't get advertised
outside of my client's site, but my client doesn't
want any indication that a majordomo server even
exists. With my current configuration, if someone
were to email to majordomo@myclientsdomain.com, they
would get a response (help, whatever) which would be
a clue that majordomo was running and could be the
target of subsequent attacks.  I searched the
archives, and the closest thing I could find to how
to implement this were some messages from 1993.

Does this feature exist?  If yes, where can I find it
in the docs?  If no, does a patch or hack exist that
provides this functionality?  I could hack it myself
to do this, but prefer to run vanilla majordomo so
future upgrades will be easier (won't have to rehack).

Regards,

Bo

P.S.  I don't want to have to manually approve all
requests either, so I would like the list to be
open+confirm... just not reachable from the outside.


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