Re: Relaying for legitimate downed hosts

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: Pete Ashdown
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: Relaying for legitimate downed hosts
Pete Ashdown writes:
>
> Part of the problem I have with blocking all relaying is that our mail
> server acts in a legitimate function as a relay for hosts that are
> unreachable at the moment. Any ideas how to prevent one kind of relaying
> (ie: for spam) and allow another?


If you are talking about incoming mail, then just set relay_domains to
cover any domains, in addition to local_domains, that you wish to accept
mail for from the outside world. Normally this would be the same set as
"domains that I have agreed can have secondary MX records pointing at me".
Note that the value can include items like "*.my.org", or regular expressions,
if you are configuring an organisation-wide backup mailhost.

Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
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