Wrong. qmail looks at the envelope recipient, not at the headers.
Besides... Having an empty rcpthosts would block mail allright... Even your
own local mail.
RC
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:57:45PM -0600, Peter Janett wrote:
> I apologize of this is in the docs somewhere, but I didn't see it.
>
> If I understand what rcpthosts does, I would think that this file should be
> empty. My understanding is that if the "To:" address contains a domain name
> listed in rcpthosts, then it will relay that email. So, a spammer can send
> a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and to a bunch of
> spam victums in the cc and bcc fields.
>
> If that's correct, and I'm using POP before SMTP, should I have an empty
> rcpthosts file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Janett
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