On Mon 06 Oct 2014 at 09:04:14 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/5/2014 11:31 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Good point. Just to be pedantic all MTAs act as relays, but I think the > > term being talked about is "open relay" IOW it's "open" for anybody to > > use, spammers, guy next door etc. etc. > > One correction - all MTAs *CAN* act as relays. But sending a message > from the sender's MTA to the recipient's MTA is generally not considered > "relaying". A relay would be when there is a third (or fourth or > fifth...) MTA between the sender's and recipient's.
This has prompts one to consider at what point in a ten person relay race could "relaying" be regarded as starting. > Only under special conditions would a relay be required. The most > obvious one I can think of is a large company with multiple sites; all > mail would go to ???@example.com, which would be one MTA. But this MTA > would then relay messages to MTAs at local sites around the world. And > the reverse would happen for messages being sent by employees. All the OP wants to do is set up a smarthost for clients on his home network. Now he's informed it doesn't meet the "special conditions" criterion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141006142503.gl17...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
