On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:15:24PM +0300, dd wrote:
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> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Einar Bordewich wrote:
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> > Nope, rcpthost includes domains that the server accept,
> >it can be local domain or just a domain that the server queues mail for
> >ex. secondary MX for a domain. It does not have anything to do with the
> >local users. If a domain is listed in rcpthost, anybody in the "world" is
> >allowed to deliver mail to that domain, even if that doman is not local
> >on that server.
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> > Use tcpserver (and do not run it from inetd), and set the relaying from there.
> > Check this links, cut'ed from www.qmail.org:
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> hey hey wait a minute. rcpthosts doesn't have anything to do with the
> local users? so why couldn't any of the users send a mail to the rest of
> the world when rcpthosts included only my host? i removed the file and now
> users can send mail to everywhere. at first i also thought as you
> explained, the file should include the hosts that are allowed to use my
> machine as relay but the reality is different, it seems (?).
rcpthosts lists the domains *FOR* which you're willing to accept mail via SMTP.
It has *nothing at all* to do with who should be allowed to relay.
Chris
