On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Bruce Rodger wrote:
> The relay_domains seems OK, but the sender_net_accept_relay causes
> problems, as some of our users talk to the exim hub using POP and SMTP.
> If they are doing this from a remote site (eg an isp dialup account)
> they can only send mail to addresses within strath.ac.uk, not external
> hosts.
Have you noticed relay_match_host_or_sender?
> The next atttempt replaced the sender_net_accept_relay with
> sender_address_relay = "*@*strath.ac.uk"
>
> This causes a problem if a user has a .forward file on department.strath.ac.uk -if mail from user@??? addressed to zzz@??? arrives,
> and gets rewritten by department to user@???, exim rejects it,
> as the source appears to be user@??? and the destination is user@???
I've missed something there. That can only happen (I think) if the
message travels like this:
remote site -> department.strath -> your central relay
is this the case?
However, relay_match_host_or_sender will help this case.
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