[Mimedefang] This mail's for you... NOT!

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Fri Mar 4 19:22:51 EST 2005


Mark wrote:
>> To:joe at example.com RELAY
>> To:fred at example.com RELAY
> 
> Are you sure you want to do this? It means you give *everybody*
> permission to RELAY through your mail server, aimed at those
> addresses! Why not simply:

Yup.  They're my addresses, so it's not really relaying.
 
> To:joe at example.com OK
> To:fred at example.com OK

Tried it, doesn't work.  Got upset.  Tried various things to make it work (including hacking sendmail.cf) until I gave up and went back to RELAY.

> That will not interfere with regular 'who-can-relay' rules. Unless
> those addresses are local, of course, in which case RELAY is simply
> not applicable to begin with. :)

They're local in the sense that the sendmail server is the MX for example.com.  That's why RELAY is acceptable.  They're not local in the sense that the mailboxes live on a different (Exchange) server - sendmail uses MAIL_HUB to forward everything that passes the access_db checks to this Exchange server.  That's why I need RELAY rather than OK.

> - Mark

Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com                 805.964.4554 x902
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