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Author: Dave C.
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To: Steffen Herold
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] How to prevent relaying from local domain to local domain
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Steffen Herold wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using exim V3.35 and smtp auth. Smtp auth works fine but if there is a
> smtp mail incoming with
>
> mail from: receiver@???
> rcpt to: receiver@???
>
> the mail will be accepted without any authentication. How to protect from
> this?


Sounds like you are relaying based on the sender email address. This is
insecure, as you can see.

Relay permissions should be granted by sender IP address and/or SMTP
AUTH (or a POP/IMAP-before-SMTP approach) only.



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> Thanx Steffen Herold
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