Todd Lyons wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:05:27AM -0500 :

cause nuttin is getting through...I'm gonna shoot dis damn thing!
basics...  your having a "relay" problem which is OK since you don't want
to be an open-relay...  the trick is to figure out how to allow those
domains through that are legit in your case...  for me, it wasn't until I
thanks Pierre...I "definately" have some more reading to do. I've gotta digest this stuff and get inside Postfix's head.

This is the thing to remember.  You don't want to enable "relay by
domain".  Why?  Ok, you're at domain "weaver.com" for example.  You
allow anybody who has an email account with you to relay through your
machine.

Ok, I say I'm "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and I send my 2 million spams how to
make your sex better.  Since it's from "@weaver.com", your mail server
happily relays all 2 million messages PLUS gets all the bounces.

I hope you can see how fallible that is.

The correct solution is pop-before-smtp or (best) authenticated SMTP.

Blue skies...			Todd
Hi Todd,

Thats what Pierre was saying. (the pop-before-smtp) the thing is for what ever reason I don't seem to be able to wrap my brain around that just yet. I don't know why, but it's just not making any sense yet.

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Mark
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