Re: [Exim] Exim Newbie -- Help!!

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Author: Fernando Sanchez
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To: Yann Golanski
CC: Mumtaj, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim Newbie -- Help!!
Yann Golanski wrote:
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> Quoth Mumtaj on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 16:35:37 +0530
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>>This is pertaining to the relay problems I am facing. Messages from my
>>server are continuously rejected by AOL. Need urgent help regarding this
>>issue.
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> Some of us here would ask for consultant fees if it was that urgent! ;>
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>>My host_accept_relay entry looks like this:
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>>    host_accept_relay = +allow_address : lsearch;/etc/relayhosts :
>>localhost

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>>What do "+allow_address" and ": localhost" entries mean?
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> RTFM. It's all explained in the manual at www.exim.org or with the
> distribution in the docs directory.
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>>Also, want to know more about /etc/relayhosts file i.e generated
>>automatically by antirelayd.
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> No idea what this is. Must be a local set up thing.
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>>If I want to allow relaying from certain domains on my server, am I
>>supposed to make these entries in /etc/relayhosts file? These will be
>>IPs or domain names in particular?
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> Yes, you need to tell Exim if allows then to relay or not. I'd use IP
> but you can use leteral domains as well.

Is tehre a way to use domain names and have some kind of reverse DNS
lookup to confirm for the relay?
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Fernando Sanchez
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