On 23 Jun 2004 at 19:28, Peter McEvoy wrote about
"Re: [Exim] authenticated hosts + sb":
| On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:39:02PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
| > <quote who="Peter McEvoy">
| > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:49:35AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| > >
| > >> Move the accept hosts = +auth_relay_hosts acl to the first place - that
| > >> will skip the other checks if they authenticate.
| > >
| > > Tried that, seems to have the negative side effect of making my system
| > > an open relay.
| >
| > How come?
|
| Have a look at this -
|...
Looks like you've defined auth_relay_hosts = * (ALL hosts), and you
didn't move the "authenticated = *" condition you originally had in
that accept stanza. So you now accept from everyone,
unconditionally.
- Fred
