jake_stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> As you can see this is a spammers dream, I must be missing something,
>>Why is this a spammers dream? It does not allow unauthenticated hosts >>to send mail to arbitrary addresses, only to local ones. > I see this as a problem because anyone from anywhere can "pretend" to be > me, as the from address > and send to any user at any local domain without being required to > authenticate with a password > in thier mail client and the message gets delivered. [...] That is the normal setup for internet hosts (take gmail or yahoo), anybody can send send mail to local domains, even if they do not fiddle with the from. - How else could yould you expect to receive mail from external hosts at all? cu andreas -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
