Re: [exim] lmtp delivery to cyrus store over unix socket req…

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hi tony,

thx 4 the reply =)


>> QUESTION: why is a hosts.allow entry required in the 1st place for
>> lmtpunix transport over a UNIXsocket?
>>
>> and, why "0.0.0.0"?
>
> This looks like a Cyrus problem or a Mac OS X problem to me.


fair nuf. i'll take this to the 'right list'.

> The version of Cyrus I have here (heavily hacked 2.1.16)


fyi, mine's a patched cvs-head ('2.2.12-dev' ?)

> looks like it won't call
> tcpwrappers for Unix domain sockets. If the kernel lies to it and returns
> the wrong kind of socket address from getpeername() then Cyrus will do the
> wrong thing. I haven't tested Mac OS X to find out if this is the problem.


looking up getpeername() here in a sec ...

if there's a check you can suggest i can run to help clarify, happy to do so ...

> 0.0.0.0 is a synonym for localhost.


clear. just odd to me that they'd use 0.0.0.0, and that the "ususal" 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost'
entries in hosts.allow are simply infeffectual/ignored.

cheers,

richard

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