Re: [exim] exim3 vs exim4 configs

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim3 vs exim4 configs
jake_stone <jake_stone@???> wrote:
>>>    As you can see this is a spammers dream, I must be missing something,


>>Why is this a spammers dream? It does not allow unauthenticated hosts
>>to send mail to arbitrary addresses, only to local ones.


>    I see this as a problem because anyone from anywhere can "pretend" to be
> me, as the from address
> and send to any user at any local domain without being required to
> authenticate with a password
> in thier mail client and the message gets delivered.

[...]

That is the normal setup for internet hosts (take gmail or yahoo),
anybody can send send mail to local domains, even if they do not
fiddle with the from. - How else could yould you expect to receive mail
from external hosts at all?

cu andreas