Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.

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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:58:32AM -0300, Guillermo Llenas wrote:
> > > I formed exim with smtp authentication,
> > > and works well. Although I have noticed that if any remote host
> > > establishes connection with my smtp and try to send messages to any
> > > of my local domains can freely send without to be necessary the
> > > authentication. I will have forgotten something in the
> > > configuration?.
> >
> > No, that is just the normal szenario, otherwise how would you recieve
> > mail for you domains? Neither Hotmail nor AOL have an user/password
> > pair for your system.
> >                 cu andreas

>
> Andreas, thanks for the answer, perhaps I did not explain myself very well.
>     Is correct that users of yahoo or hotmail or whatever, does deliverys
> towards accounts@mydomains. But using smtps of yahoo or hotmail like
> transport of those mails. What I am saying is that if anyone of those users
> instead of using smtp.hotmail.com or smtp.yahoo.com uses smtp.mydomain.com
> sending mails to accounts@mydomain it can do it.

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So you want to allow hotmail to deliver to you but some normal
dialup-user?

Use DUL and wait until SPF or something simlar has been implemented.
            cu andreas