Thanks to both who replied, This is now working as desired. No I definatly do not want to allow the relaying but unfortunatly have to for a temporary period in order to support an old phone (that will be upgraded)
I made up the IP Range for the purpose of the post. Thanks again, Mark On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:44:01PM +0100, John Burnham wrote: > > I'm having problems setting up a relay for an external IP > > address range, the following has been setup in acl_check_rcpt > > > > accept > > hosts = SPECIAL_RELAY > > log_message = "SPECIAL ACCEPT: $sender_address locally > > specially whitelisted" > > > > SPECIAL_RELAY is defined in listmacrodefs as 213.185.*.* > > > > When I test with exim -bh I get the 'relay not permitted' message. > > > > Should it be defined as 213.185.0.0/16? > > Yes. > > > > > Am I doing this completely wrong or is there something small missing? > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > Do you really want to allow a /16 network range to relay through your server ? > Especially as, when I did a quick whois, that network doesn't belong to a > single > organisation. > John > > -- > ## 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/ -- ## 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/
