Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:15:59 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay
>> _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself.
>
>Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail
>in either direction from a host listing it as an MX.
Philip would never incorporate an option that dangerous into his
program. He knows what he is doing and he also knows what an open
relay is.
I don't have older versions of exim here so I can't look in older
manuals though.
Greetings
Marc
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