Victor Duchovni wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:51:18AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> 
>> I guess this is intended behaviour - there is no sender address,
>> so the destination hostname is looked up instead, but shouldn't there
>> also be a lookup with sender='<>' ?
> 
> No. Just as there is no user-specific relayhost for sender '<>'. 
> Clearly there is no universal password for sending bounces via all
> SMTP servers, and since mail from "<>" takes the default route, it
> uses the default (nexthop-specific) password policy.
> 
> This is correct as designed. The sender-specific stuff is for SOHO
> users who want outbound mail sourced via their outside email service
> provider. This is clearly not appropriate for "<>". For mail addressed
> from users with outside mailboxes use "relayhost" and whatever
> password policy you have for "relayhost".

Thanks for the explanation, that was very helpful. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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