SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate. j.
-- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.gaddis.org> > -----Original Message----- > From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: exim and relaying -- for ONE user > > > looking for a way to accept HARDLY ANY relays -- hopefully more > than just "anybody from worldnet.att.net"... > > i've got a partner who'd like to be able to send email from > serensoft.com -- but he's way out in the northeast using > worldnet.att.net, and i'm way out here in the midwest using > podunk-isp-r-us. > > when he tries sending email as coming from @serensoft.com, it's > accepted if it's TO another serensoft user; but for any external > destination it gets bounced as a relay attempt, because of the > line > > relay_domains = > > in the /etc/exim/exim.conf file. > > if i change it to > > relay_domains = worldnet.att.net > > then he can certainly send email from @serensoft to @out-there > but then SO CAN ANYBODY ELSE using that small, tiny, > insignificant worldnet.att.net network (of thousands and > thousands). > > is there some way to further restrict the relaying? i DO NOT want > any black hats turning my server into spam-o-rama. ideas welcome. > > -- > I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; > Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #109 from Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Puzzled about HOW TO READ COMPRESSED FILES? In /usr/share/doc > there are tons of *.gz files -- they're "gzipped" to save space. > I like to use lynx to read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/*. It > handles gzip textfiles just fine and makes it easy to navigate > between files. If there is HTML documentation you can follow > the hyperlinks. > BTW, if you install the doc-linux-html package you get the > HOWTOs in hypertext. > > Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
