On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:25:14PM -0500, Jeff Hayward wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2000, Gareth Harper wrote:
>
> 1) His first requirement was to only allow relaying if the user had one
> of his hosted domains as the From: line of an email. I've told him what
> a bad idea this is but there's no persuading. So is there anyway to do
> this but only when the mail has to be relayed? I'd guess we'd need a
> patch to smtpd. Please don't tell me what a bad idea this is - I know.
> But orders are orders.
>
> Warning: brain damage detected. You will instantly be listed in ORBS, and
> will likely also be frequently abused by relay-rapers.
Jeff, if you read into the statement just a bit, you'll realize that
the boss is asking for something much worse: denying relaying from
valid IPs which don't present the ISPs domain in the envelope sender.
John
