On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Ashish Pawaskar wrote:
> "Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> PJH> There's a good chance you have configured 127.0.0.1 as relayclient, in
> PJH> which case that check would actually return that the address exists.
>
> Peter, are you suggesting that setting up 127.0.0.1 as a relay client
> is a bad idea, if yes, then how do we allow local server
> scripts/programs to send email?
Allowing localhost as a relayclient is not the same thing as
checking the sender address and rejecting the connection on the basis that
that host address resolves to localhost. Local scripts can still work (at
least they do for me) if the resolvable host name is part of the sender
address.
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Roger Walker
"His Pain - Our Gain"
