[Mailman-Users] How to accept mail from a single IP / DNS name only for a given list

Brad Knowles brad at shub-internet.org
Wed Dec 31 18:07:30 CET 2008


on 12/30/08 1:10 PM, Emmett Perdue said:

> How can I setup a list so that mail can be accepted ONLY from 1 IP 
> address? As an example I have a list named abc at 123.com and it is setup 
> as an announce list only accepting mail from 1 user with an address of 
> bob at 123.com..  How can I set this list up so that even if the mail 
> appears to come from bob at 123.com the email will post to the list ONLY if 
> bob at 123.com's email came from bobspc.123.com which has an an IP address 
> of 123.456.789.246

That's really something that you need to do in your MTA.  By the time 
the message gets to Mailman, we can no longer tell what IP address sent 
what.

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