[jadmin] how to allow 'foreign' registrations

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Mona Meyer wrote:
> I installed jabber 1.4.3-3.3 on Debian Etch. Jabber ist up and running
> and I managed to register with several users, but only if I use
> "anything"@myhost.com <http://myhost.com>. Any attempts to register
> with  email-Adresses different to @ myhost.com <http://myhost.com> fails
> and the logfiles show the errormessage:  "bouncing a routed packet to
> anything at yourhost.com <mailto:anything at yourhost.com> from
> 12 at c2s/1104140: Internal Delivery Error".
> 
> How can I allow registrations by users from different domains?

You probably can't.

Jabber is designed so that you can't "fake" other domains. So let's say
you have a server that is set up for monameyer.com (i.e., you have DNS
settings for that and you have configured jabberd for that domain). Now
if someone tries to register an account at your server but the domain
for their account is not monameyer.com (say, mona at jabber.org), it won't
work because your jabber server is not configured for jabber.org only
for monameyer.com.

You *can* set up jabberd so that it answers for multiple domains (say
both monameyer.com and familiameyer.de). We call this "virtual domains".
But if a domain is not configured in DNS and your server, someone can't
register an account for that domain or send messages from that domain
via your server. This is part of what helps us prevent spam on the
jabber network.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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