On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andy Meuse wrote:
| Here is a recap of my situation. ORBS says I'm an open relay. I had no
| rcpthosts file so there you go. When I create a rcpthosts file local users
| can't send remote mail.
You need to read LWQ, and specifically, the section on selective relaying.
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#relaying
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html
| I thought I read that the :allow is redundant since the default is to allow
| any connection?
It is redundant. It's put in there to be syntaxtically correct in case the
default behavior changes in the future.
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