Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Smtp authentication.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:05:29PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.
> [...]

>
> So you want to allow hotmail to deliver to you but some normal

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> dialup-user?
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> Use DUL and wait until SPF or something simlar has been implemented.

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