On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Shouldn't exim always treat the loopback address as being equivalent to
> the local host's "real" IP address? If not, why not?
> Log excerpt:
>
> 11:48:03 refused relay (host accept) to <schaefer@???> from
> <schaefer@???> H=localhost [127.0.0.1] (schaefer)
I deduce from "(host accept)" that you have set up sender_host_accept_relay
and it does not include 127.0.0.1. Exim does not treat this specially,
for flexibility. If it always accepted relays from the local host, you
could not lock out relaying from the local host. I can envisage cases
where you might want to prevent users on the local host from relaying
messages through your SMTP port.
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