Re: [exim] problem

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Author: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] problem
On 21 Feb 2005 at 22:12, Brett Parker wrote about
    "Re: [exim] problem":


| dziury@??? <dziury@???> wrote:
| > hello
| > i can connect to my serevr telnet server 25
| > and send mail from admin@??? to anyone of my user,
| > everyone is allowed to do that, how to disable it ?
| > for safe reasons
|
| I'm assuming that you mean stop people from pretending to be
| admin@???? hrm, off the top of my head, no, fraid not. It's
| part and parcel of SMTP.


Not necessarily. admin may not be a valid local user, or he may be
telneting from outside and wants to restrict access to his local net
or prevent external clients from spoofing MAIL FROM.

All easy to fix, but there was not enough information given to know
what his problem really is, if he has one.

- Fred