Bill Cole wrote:
At 10:44 PM -0500 1/21/03, Chris Ellens imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
But my concern is that what if I hadn't had my *.com entry in the router? It seems from these logs that that was the only thing that avoided a relay? Shouldn't the message be rejected rather than accepted, because the intended recipient is in a foreign domain?
But the recipient is not a foreign domain. It's someone you explicitly choose to route mail for. You route mail for all of *.com to NULL. That makes the recipient ( someone in *.com ) a client of sorts. SIMS sees any address that is routed explicitly (except to ERROR) as an address whose mail it should accept.
Ahhhh - that explains it. Thanks Bill (and LuKreme).
So without the "*.com = NULL" entry in my router, SIMS would have rejected the message as being an attempted relay. If I understand your comment above, having the entry
*.com = ERROR
would would also bounce the message (although I expect the reason text might be different).
No I'm not planning to actually have that entry in my router, its just a hypothetical question to make sure I (and anyone else reading this) understand how SIMS behaves. (The archive of this mailing list serves as valuable documentation for SIMS).
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Chris Ellens
Nepean, Ontario, Canada
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