RE: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate.
j.
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Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: will trillich [mailto:will@serensoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: exim and relaying -- for ONE user
>
>
> looking for a way to accept HARDLY ANY relays -- hopefully more
> than just "anybody from worldnet.att.net"...
>
> i've got a partner who'd like to be able to send email from
> serensoft.com -- but he's way out in the northeast using
> worldnet.att.net, and i'm way out here in the midwest using
> podunk-isp-r-us.
>
> when he tries sending email as coming from @serensoft.com, it's
> accepted if it's TO another serensoft user; but for any external
> destination it gets bounced as a relay attempt, because of the
> line
>
> relay_domains =
>
> in the /etc/exim/exim.conf file.
>
> if i change it to
>
> relay_domains = worldnet.att.net
>
> then he can certainly send email from @serensoft to @out-there
> but then SO CAN ANYBODY ELSE using that small, tiny,
> insignificant worldnet.att.net network (of thousands and
> thousands).
>
> is there some way to further restrict the relaying? i DO NOT want
> any black hats turning my server into spam-o-rama. ideas welcome.
>
> --
> I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
> Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown
>
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #109 from Dave Thayer <dave@thayer-boyle.com>
> :
> Puzzled about HOW TO READ COMPRESSED FILES? In /usr/share/doc
> there are tons of *.gz files -- they're "gzipped" to save space.
> I like to use lynx to read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/*. It
> handles gzip textfiles just fine and makes it easy to navigate
> between files. If there is HTML documentation you can follow
> the hyperlinks.
> BTW, if you install the doc-linux-html package you get the
> HOWTOs in hypertext.
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
>
>
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