On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 09:03:34AM +0700, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > > Hello.., I would like to ask what are the terms spam mail and mail > > relay? are they the same thing? how does it work and how to prevent > > them?, or may be you can point me to the right direction where I can > > find more info about it... > > They're not equal. > > . Relayed Mail is delivered through an innocent system that accepts > such mail. It is delivered to senders outside of the local area > (including MX hosting &c). Modern MTA's doesn't allow this > anymore. Our server lists.debian.org does only accept mail for > its own domain, not for others, no relaynig allowed. Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit and I need to get something like exim or sendmail.
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