Thanks everyone for the answer to my query about allowing other
machines on my SoHo network to send mail.
While I *may* remove rcpthosts as an emergency measure to get mail out
I think I will do it properly for a number of reasons:-
1 - I have an ISDN connection so it pops up at the drop of a hat
and may be up at times that I don't notice.
2 - I have a static IP address.
3 - The connection is often up for several hours at a time.
Is it possible to wild card the 'allowed' IP addresses? I could then
allow 192.168.13.* and it wouldn't matter if I change the addresses of
machines on my network, add new ones, etc.
As an aside, if qmail allows relaying by any 'real' IP address isn't
it then possible for a spammer to discover this address and use the
relay by forging his IP address? The 'private' ranges of IP addresses
presumably wouldn't be susceptible to this as they shouldn't be
propagated across the internet.
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