[jadmin] how to allow 'foreign' registrations

[Mona Meyer]

First of all: Thank you very much for your fast and your very detailed
response!

Is there a possibility to manually register "foreign users", so I can
prevent spammers, but also allow trusted people to use my server?

Mona

2007/11/13, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>:
>
> 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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