Re: selecting which IP address qmail-send sends from

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:24:44 GMT, Shane Spraggs <sspraggs@acromediainc.com> may have written:
>
> Perhaps I should explain the core problem. I'm trying to close a
> perceived open relay problem on my email server. The form
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~remmie/relay/ identifies my server as an
> open relay because it can log in and send mail to any domain in our
> rcpthost file.

How, pray tell, would you receive ANY email if you couldn't send email
to the domains in the rcpthosts file? Obviously that test is immensely
flawed unless testing an outbound only mail relay.

If this machine is only supposed to send mail remotely, and not accept
mail for delivery unless RELAYCLIENT is set, then perhaps rcpthosts
should be empty?

Cheers,
--
Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services

Brian T Glenn <glenn-nntp@this.delink.is.net.invalid> wrote in
news:slrnc6n0c9.f9k.glenn-nntp@ziege.delink.net:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:24:44 GMT, Shane Spraggs
> <sspraggs@acromediainc.com> may have written:
>>
>> Perhaps I should explain the core problem. I'm trying to close a
>> perceived open relay problem on my email server. The form
>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~remmie/relay/ identifies my server as an
>> open relay because it can log in and send mail to any domain in our
>> rcpthost file.
>
> How, pray tell, would you receive ANY email if you couldn't send email
> to the domains in the rcpthosts file? Obviously that test is immensely
> flawed unless testing an outbound only mail relay.
>
> If this machine is only supposed to send mail remotely, and not accept
> mail for delivery unless RELAYCLIENT is set, then perhaps rcpthosts
> should be empty?
>
> Cheers,

Thanks for the second opinion.