On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:10:20AM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> 2) queue remote mail rewriting addresses
> a) send to a smarthost (provider's smtp) if the domain of the recipient
> is listed in a file (eg. /etc/smarthostdomains)
> b) send directly otherwise
As a matter of policy, I strongly advise against this. Refusing to
accept direct SMTP mail from a dialup host is one of the most
effective weapons a sysadmin has in combating spam, and more and
more administrators are doing this. Your ISP will provide you with
a smarthost, and you should use this for all outbound mail. There
are also advantages to doing so in that a permenantly connected
static host can be more flexible about retries.
Christi
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