Re: [Exim] Relaying at ISP SMTP - ANSWERED

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 02:42:11 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:

>> In some roundabout way, there may be, after all that handshaking is the
>> TCP establishment, and there may be IP based relay controls, in which
>> case, the TCP session's source address will be in the handshake and
>> therefore some determination of whether the host on the other end of the
>> connection can relay.
>
>No offence, but you need help I think... IP numbers has just about zero to
>do with routing email. You're getting confused between TCP/IP Routing and
>Mail routing here I believe. Two completely different things, and works
>completely different aswell...

yep, TCP has nothing to do with this.

dynamic assignment of mail relays is the subject of a number of IETF
drafts from various and sundry zero configuration efforts; none have
ever gotten very far, not even, i think, to the first leg of the
standards track.

what Paul is describing simply doesn't exist in any standards based
environment that i'm aware of.

Paul has already been given the clues he needed to solve his problem;
unfortunately, he's already made up his mind and isn't listening.

richard