RE: [Exim] relaying problems - URGENT

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Author: Gatenby, Damon
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To: 'Elliot Finley', 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] relaying problems - URGENT
I have users outside of my IP block who have email accounts with my,
wouldn't that stop them from
sending mail?

I have no idea.


THX

DG

> ----------
> From:     Elliot Finley
> Reply To:     Elliot Finley
> Sent:     Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:49 PM
> To:     Gatenby, Damon; exim-users@???
> Subject:     Re: [Exim] relaying problems - URGENT

>
> I believe the problem is this line:
>
> host_accept_relay = gatenby.net
>
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but this line enables
> spammers to set their from address to anything@??? and your server
> will allow them to relay.
>
> You need to change that line to include only IP blocks rather than domain
> name(s).
>
> HTH
>
> Elliot
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gatenby, Damon" <dgatenby@???>
> To: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:40 AM
> Subject: [Exim] relaying problems - URGENT
>
>
> I have had my mail server up for months without an issue yesterday it
> started relaying mail from spammers off my server so I edited my exim
> config
> file, now i have no spammers, but no user on my server can send mail to an
> outside domain because exim refuses
> to relay. I'm sure its just a minor bug in my conf, but i cant find it.
> Please help. Here is a link to my current exim config file:
> http://www.gatenby.net/exim.conf.txt
>
> this is extremely important, thanks in advance for the help
>
>
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