Re: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Peter Huesser
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] 550 Administrative prohibition
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Peter Huesser wrote:

> >That's because you have no access control lists.
> >
> I have one. It looks like:
>
> begin acl
> acl_check_rcpt:
>   accept  hosts         = +relay_from_hosts

>
> Nothing else.  relay_from_hosts is something like:
>     relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : xxx.xxx.0.0/16 : xxx.xxx.xxx.0/24


Did you telnet from one of those hosts?

> Just for testing: Is it possible to accept mails from everywere ?


Sure.

  begin acl
  acl_check_rcpt:
    accept


or even

acl_smtp_rcpt = accept

further up.

But do not do it for more than a few minutes. Otherwise your host will
become an open relay for the spammers.

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