Author: Everton da Silva Marques Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Exim Teergrubing
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:37:27PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:11:06PM -0300, Everton da Silva Marques wrote:
>
> > We run Exim here and we get many "relay not permitted"
> > daily in the log files.
> > I was wondering if would be reasonable to "teergrube" a
> > mail server which is stealthly trying to use us as
> > mail relay. Can you tell if Exim supports this?
>
> Exim does not support this right now.
(...)
> This would be better done some other way though, but I don't think Philip
> would be keen on having exim do teergrubing instead of sending a 5xx back.
We're again seeing "relay not permitted" very often.
May we hope Exim someday is going to support something like this:
# If set to "yes", Exim teergrubes the offending SMTP client
# Defaults to "no"
teergrube_prohibited_relay = yes
