Re: MTAs: rejecting senders with exim and delivering responses to rejected senders
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:57:23PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble setting up my MTAs. The situation is as
> follows:
>
>
> Server: provides dial-up connection to ISP, runs qmail
> qmail sends any non-local mail using smtp.SoftHome.net
> as remote SMTP server
> The remote SMTP server accepts mail only when envelope-sender
> and From: line are set to my mail-address
> (yagibdah@softhome.net).
> To get mail from my accounts, I'm running fetchmail to fetch it.
>
> Workstation: runs exim
> exim sends any non-local to Server, using it as a relay
> exim does address-rewriting, using /etc/email-addresses
I have a simple question here - if you are able to block mail at the
server level, why do you need to again block stuff from your workstation?
Sam
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(Sam Varghese)
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