Re: [Exim] Domain literals: weighing up the arguments

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Author: Alun
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Domain literals: weighing up the arguments
Philip Hazel (ph10@???) said, in message
    <Pine.SOL.4.58.0312051343330.18857@???>:

>
> There are plenty of similar configurations where outgoing mail servers
> send out mail to the world but won't accept incoming mail connections from
> outside their borders. And what about people using NAT and load-sharing
> hardware and stuff like that? One IP address may well not correspond to
> one box.


Example: aber.ac.uk. All mail from our users' MUAs goes through
smtphost.aber.ac.uk while all inbound mail from outside comes through
mailserv.aber.ac.uk. The latter has all our spam scanning.

Cheers,
Alun.

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Alun Jones                       auj@???
Systems Support,                 (01970) 62 2494
Information Services,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth