Hello all,
I am new to qmail and am working on migrating to it from a system
called Post.Office from www.software.com. I have had a little experience
with sendmail, but not much. Anyway, I have looked at the FAQ and tried
searching the mailing list and have not found an answer to my question.
Here it is:
It seems to me that the rcpthosts functionality is reversed from what it
should be. I thought that maybe the functionality I wanted was to be found
in the locals file, but that seems to control what machines qmail will
accept mail for and hold locally. Following what appears to be the noted
practice of duplicating this in the rcpthosts file, I assumed this would
allow any of the machines in rcpthosts to relay through qmail anywhere they
wanted. But it seems the behavior of this file is to only allow me to
send mail to ONLY the hosts in rcpthosts, so I am stuck in my own little
domain.
You would think that the rcpthosts file could serve a better purpose by
allowing the machines listed in it to send anywhere, instead of any machine
out on the internet to only send files to the machines in rcpthosts, which
in the case of the same information being in locals, serves no purpose
that I can see.
I do have the info from the FAQ on selectively allowing certain hosts
to set RELAYHOST and am going to try implementing that, otherwise I am
going to add the user/password auth patch for qmail-smtpd from nimh.org
since I ultimately need that for offsite POP access.
Any thoughts or recommendations welcome,
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