Thanks to both who replied, This is now working as desired.
No I definatly do not want to allow the relaying but unfortunatly have
to for a temporary period in order to support an old phone (that will be
upgraded)
I made up the IP Range for the purpose of the post.
Thanks again,
Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:44:01PM +0100, John Burnham wrote:
> > I'm having problems setting up a relay for an external IP
> > address range, the following has been setup in acl_check_rcpt
> >
> > accept
> > hosts = SPECIAL_RELAY
> > log_message = "SPECIAL ACCEPT: $sender_address locally
> > specially whitelisted"
> >
> > SPECIAL_RELAY is defined in listmacrodefs as 213.185.*.*
> >
> > When I test with exim -bh I get the 'relay not permitted' message.
> >
> > Should it be defined as 213.185.0.0/16?
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > Am I doing this completely wrong or is there something small missing?
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> Do you really want to allow a /16 network range to relay through your server ?
> Especially as, when I did a quick whois, that network doesn't belong to a single
> organisation.
> John
>
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