Reply to: John Tolmachoff
Re: [IMail Forum] Store and Forward on Tuesday 2:32:18 PM
Thanks again, John. (for both comments)
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Roger Heath
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>> If I have 'Relay for Local Users' on and then remove the accept.txt,
>> then it will deliver incoming mail to the other server? Is any one
>> doing it this way for this application? I have not heard this
>> discussed lately here.
J> Our mail server is acting as a gateway for one of our clients, so yes, I am
J> doing that and it is working fine without anything in the accept.txt and
J> having relay set to Relay for Addresses.
J> "Relay for local users" will automatically allow anyone to send mail through
J> your server by saying it is from one of your uses. This is by forging the
J> from address, which is quite easy. The accept.txt file is only for
J> additional addresses.
J> In the KB article, the last paragraph is ONLY so that the client mail server
J> will send all outgoing mail from it to your server, which would scan and
J> deliver. If you are not processing their outgoing mail, you can disregard
J> that part. Yes, the KB article does not exactly make that point clear, and I
J> am going to recommend that it be changed. Eric?
J> John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
J> IT Manager, Network Engineer
J> RelianceSoft, Inc.
J> Fullerton, CA 92835
J> www.reliancesoft.com
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