Re: [Exim] confused with ETRN

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Steve Foster
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] confused with ETRN
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Steve Foster wrote:

> my hosts allow ETRN connections from my customers mail-servers , when the
> connecting mail-host sends the ETRN command and the Queue-run is triggered,
> is an "exim -Mc" processed triggered for each mail-id, and does this
> attempt to send via MX records to the lowest MX...


Yes. Well, it attempts to send the message according to however Exim
routes it, to be strictly accurate.

> or does the ETRN use the SMTP session that gets established by the
> connecting host to deliver the messages to that connecting host.....


No. That was what TURN used to do. It was a security exposure. That is
why ETRN was invented.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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