Well thank you for your replys Drew and Sam.  It just seemed like a
simple thing for courier to be able to run a check up against the local
users and aliases and be able to determine that it was an invalid local
sender from the domain it courier reconizes as the ones it manages.  I don't
really care to rehash what I am sure has been of some debate.  I am using
spamassasian and it catches most things just fine.  I was just worried about
such an obvious thing that could easily be checked for.  I share my
dissapointment that such an option doesn't exist.  I understand what I was
speaking of wasn't a "relay" because it wasn't being relayed to another
machine..  I was just confused on the symantecs of what was going on.  I was
really just speaking of local sanity checks against fradulant emails.

   Thanks for the responses, I really do hope a sanity check of this nature
could be included in the future as an option.  Now I am off to check my own
sanity.

~James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Blanket Accepting Localmachine relaying


>
>
> James Hart wrote:
>
> >    I have authenication for relaying turned on, that works just fine.
> > However, if I test remotly with an account that has an invalid
> > username at one of my localhost domains (or accept for domains) and
> > send an email to a valid user on the server it goes through.  I rather
> > not [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> emails be
> > sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > especially when baduser does not have an account on the machine!
> >
> >    What have I missed, is it a bug, is it a feature, is it my
> > ignorance?  Thanks.
> >
> > ~James
> >
>
> An MTA _has_  to accept  _any_  mail addressed to a valid local account,
> regardless of the sender or source.
> Mail addressed to a valid local user is _not_ being relayed.
>
> The functionality you are looking for would, most likely, be found
> inside a spam or virus filter.
>
> regards,
>
> Drew
>
>
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