Re: [EXIM] Relaying

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Author: Steve Lamb
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Relaying
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:27:58 +0100 (BST), Robert Baskerville wrote:

>>     What about this?

>>
>> # If this is uncommented, we accept and relay mail for all domains we are
>> # in the DNS as an MX for.
>>
>> relay_domains_include_local_mx = true


>Doesn't this leave you open to abuse though? Anyone can list *your*
>system as an MX for *their* domain in their DNS....


    Yeah.  If that is the case, why is it in there?  If it is in there and it
is the case, what can one do to use it without opening oneself to relay?  It
seems to me that if a feature is pretty much worthless, why present it in the
default config file?
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