-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In message <[email protected]>, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> writes
>It's not the recipients that's a problem. It's the sender, reply-to, >from, et al. They check validity of those, and "[email protected]" or >"....@localhost" just don't cut it for them. They're probably interested in reducing outgoing spam -- these sorts of checks improve their chances of blocking junk; albeit they will prevent perfectly sensible configurations from working :( You may need to change to another provider if your view of sensible fails to accord with theirs. ... that said, you certainly want to have (and it is reasonable for an ISP to insist upon) a routeable address for the SMTP sender because otherwise it's impossible to send you any delivery status notifications (or other bounces). It's also pretty unwise to have the Reply-To: unrouteable! though that's your problem rather than that of worldwide mail systems! >> BTW, Exim has had security issues in the past. They're rare, but have >> happened. ISTR there was at least one issue somewhere between >> 3.20 and 3.36 but the details escape me. > >This runs on a 32MB 486/33, kernel-2.2.26, ipchains, diald, pppd, and is >just dialing in, sending some email to a select group, and hanging up. >I'm sure there are more than just exim's security issues. Then let us hope that you never stay online for more than a few seconds (so you cannot pollute the Internet for the rest of us) or have any personal data on your machine that you'd be loth to pass on to others :( - -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQA/AwUBSwk1hJoAxkTY1oPiEQJh6ACfYU1s5sbgQWzD1hc5W6o47449dr8AoKTi fphuJ8iXYA1kbTJk3AbkoQXL =FRJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## 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/
