On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:21:56 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
>On Wednesday 3 January 2001, at 15 h 15, the keyboard of Robert Waldner
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> make your local mailer (sendmail, exim, whatever) feeling "responsible"
>> for the domain and simply use fetchmail to pop the mails
>
>This needs an account on the ISP's machine for every local user. Inconvenient.
Uh, why? As far as I understood, Martin has _one_ POP-account
(domain-in-a-box this feature is called by us) with his ISP.
He now can use fetchmail to get the mails, and fetchmail will deliver
it to localhost:25, no matter whatīs in From, To, Cc, whereever. Only
one account needed.
The only problem with a setup like this is, that itīs exploitable by
spammers, as they can set whatever they wnat in To: or Bcc: and deliver
it into the box, the local mailer only sees the mails coming from
localhost and will usually happily deliver them all (but, hey, thatīs
the intention with the local MTA, isnīt it? ;-) ). But as the ISPs
mailservers are usually quite hardened, this shouldnīt be too much of a
problem.
hth,
&rw
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