Because you more often want a mail server to relay your mail than not to
relay your mail.
Why bother setting up rcpthosts if your server is firewalled off from the
internet, being an internal mail handler/relay anyway?
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Almqvist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:51 AM
> To: Peter van Dijk; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ORBS doesn't like me :(
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:42:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:37:32AM -0400, Andy Meuse wrote:
> > > Hmmm. I removed my rcpthosts file.
> > Put it back. Without an rcpthosts file, you are an open relay.
>
> That's always surprised me. I would have assumed that qmail would
> default to control/me if rcpthosts is empty. Any reason why
> it doesn't?
>
> -Johan
> --
> Johan Almqvist
>
