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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