Quoth Philip Hazel on Fri, May 07, 1999:
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > host_accept_relay = @ : localhost
> >
> > It seems like the behavior of exim changed somewhere.
>
> That is odd, unless you had *no* relay settings before.
Yup, indeed I (or, more accurately, Ephraim) had no relay
settings. The mail was still relayed from localhost and @ to
everywhere. Well, I don't know if we should call it relaying,
becuase all those hosts did was sending the mail to our
mailserver for further processing (see the Received: headers of
this message for an example).
> There *is* a
> change in that relaying is now locked out by default in the binary -
> previously this was not the case, but the default configuration locked
> it out.
Good. I think it is the Right Thing.
Vadik.
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