[Kolab-devel] How to switch off Kolab's anti-spoof?

Stephan Buys stephan at impi.org.za
Tue Feb 6 12:08:00 CET 2007


Hi Thomas,

Edit /kolab/etc/kolab/templates/resmgr.conf.template, all the magic is in 
there...

when you have made your change run /kolab/sbin/kolabconf to propogate the 
changes.

Regards,
Stephan

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 12:47, Thomas Black wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Kolab appears to have built in anti-spoof protection for users, so
> basically if you send mail from a kolab handled email address via an
> email relay to a kolab user, you get the following error:
>
> Sender address rejected: Invalid sender;
>
> Now, I realise that this is to protect users from spoofing, but how do
> you switch that off? In south Africa you very regularly have to send
> via mail relays and the business impact of doing this is much greater
> than the potential impact of a spoofed email address.
>
> I see that in the web interface you can accept these messages and then
> change the headers to warn of a possible forgery, but once you enable
> that it rejects all mail where the From and Envelope-from don't match,
> as they very often do not when mail is sent from mailing lists (ie.
> message is from 'info', envelope-from is 'bounces', etc.) So I really
> don't want to enable that, I just want to switch off anti-spoof /
> forgery so that the above error is prevented when sending via a
> relay...
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Thomas
>
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