On 31/03/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-03-31, Steve Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you should be sending your mail via your work's authenticated SMTP > > relay (and yes, I'm aware they probably don't run one :). This is a > > requirement anyway if your work published SPF records for the domain. > > To do that I'd have to configure my home Exim to route mail > differently according to the From-address,
Trivial in Exim - very many 'home users' of Exim do this. > and I'd have to store my > shell password unencrypted in exim.conf! That's one way, but several dozen others don't require that. Better read the section on authenticators in the docs. > > This does of course also mean that you can't register a domain name via a > > 3rd-party registrar and send mail from that domain via your ISP's mail > > servers (since your ISP has no idea that you own that domain). > > Isn't this one of the main reasons why a lot people say SPF stinks? SPF has disadvantages, but the fact that it encourages good practice by mail forwarders and relays isn't one of them. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
