Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 1 March 1999 at 12:10:20 -0500
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for
> selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25,
> you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people
> to remove your server from their list.
"By default" is sufficiently slippery that I want to sidestep that
issue. Since this is an area people seem to have trouble with (at
least they ask frequently), let me try some proactive relaying
prevention :-).
Qmail prevents relaying if and only if the file control/rcpthosts
exists (this file should contain the list of domains that your server
should accept email for delivery to). If all locally-originated email
is sent via qmail-inject (including via the qmail sendmail wrapper),
that's all you need to do. However, if some mail user agents submit
their mail via SMTP, and always if you have POP users, you need to
turn relaying on selectively for the IP addresses that those users
come from. This process is described in FAQ 5.4.
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