antony: the only reason why i am doing this is because i am blocking all incoming connectios to my box except portuguese connections. i manage to get all the portuguese ip ranges, put the forward chain to drop and a accepted all the sources i want to get connections from. this way i will only be accepting connetions from portugal, since that the ammount of users i administrate is not enough for that machine to be opened to the whole world. there are in fact lots of users expecting mail to come from those 2 most known smtps, so this forces me to accept connectiosn from those domains :)) the way i see it, filtering with qmail doesn´t make any sense, because what i want is not to filter but to accept :)))