RE: [Exim] Mail relay problems

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Cory Daehn
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Mail relay problems
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Cory Daehn wrote:

> On another note... How do I get exim to relay for an entire class B
> domain? I have a client that uses SBC's DSL and they keep having their
> IP change from one class C to another, but within the same class C.
> According to ARIN the entire class B block belongs to SBC
> Communications, and I'd like to just enable it from there. Same thing
> for University of Texas' dialup account IP's.



They have a /24, and it keeps changing? Thats insane..

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> I tried this:
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> 64.217.0.0/65536
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> but it doesn't seem to be working... Any suggestions?


As someone else pointed out, /16 is what you want. This is CIDR
notation, in the event you wanted to google for documentation.

However, you might be better of setting up SMTP AUTH.

It is almost never a good idea to add networks that *YOU* do not
directly control/own to host_accept_relay.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-admin@??? [mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On
> Behalf Of Andy Coy
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: exim
> Subject: RE: [Exim] Re: Mail relay problems
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> post# sendmail -bP host_accept_relay
> host_accept_relay =
> localhost:127.0.0.1:212.1.128.0/19:62.6.186.226:80.40/13:212.74.96.0/19:
> 212.
> 159.128.0/18:62.64.128.0/19:212.139.32.0/19:212.139.128.0/17:213.123.76.
> 0/23
> :62.7.125.0/24:62.7.126.0/24:62.7.127.0/24:80.225/16
> post#
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> I think I have fixed most of it. At the end of the long list of IP's I
> added *.tiscali.com and suddenley it's started to relay. I beleive the
> problem to be down to the 'funky' DNS someone else mentioned earlier.
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