Re: Exim question: open relay?
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 15:31:54 -0500,
Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 200311091531.54738.jeffelkins@earthlink.net>:
> On Sunday 09 November 2003 1:45 pm, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:20:09PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:44:48 -0500,
> > > Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> > >
> > > <[🔎] 200311082344.48102.jeffelkins@earthlink.net>:
> > > > I have just started hosting a domain on my server for my
> > > > granddaughter and the web portion is working perfectly. However,
> > > > I'd like to offer her email as well.
> > > >
> > > > She's 200 miles away...how can I set this up to avoid the ugly
> > > > open relay problem?
> > >
> > > ..another way is use fetchmail to pick up the mail.
> >
> > Fetchmail is fine for receiving mail, but what about sending it? Or
> > other people emailing you?
..exim or some other MTA. Their email winds up in your
pop3/imap/whatever account(s), where you fetch them.
> Picking up email isn't an issue, so fetchmail doesn't apply, AFAIKT.
..huh? You don't wanna be an open relay? Fetchmail plus exim is the
easy way out here. You wanna go the big shot isp way, feel free. ;-)
> I searched the archives for info on asmtp, but mostly I found messages
> saying 'search the archives for exim asmtp' :)
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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