It would be useful (but not critical) if it worked (or my error was
corrected - all the relay stuff here works with the %-hack off) for
locally delivered mail.
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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Alan Thew wrote:
>
> > I'm running 1.73 but would appear to have got something wrong. I have
> >
> > percent_hack_domains="*.liv.ac.uk:liverpool.ac.uk"
> >
> > but mail from an offsite machine is happily relayed offsite, thus
> > bypassing the anti-relay blocks.
>
> The percent hack makes the incoming mail look like it's coming to your
> local domain as far as the normal relay-checking code is concerned, so
> it gets through.
>
> The percent_hack_domains option has been there since the very first
> version of exim, before all the other relaying stuff. I put it in in
> case anybody actually wanted it, though of course it is disabled by
> default. Instead of just having an on/off switch for the hack, I thought
> it might be more useful to allow it for certain local domains only, but
> there never was any check on the outgoing portion of the address.
>
> How important is this? Do people actually want to make use of the %-hack
> these days?
>
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>
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