To clear up an ambiguity in my original: On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 19:19 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Does a machine that is not part of my domain qualify as a client? > Suppose my MTA is contacted by a dial-up IP for somewhere.com (not my > domain), and that I do want to accept such mail. The human client sending the mail works for somewhere.com, not my organization. I'm not talking about the case of a roaming user who really is in my domain. The mail is external in all senses; I just want to accept it for the same reason I accept email from anywhere on the internet. They could be a spammer. > Does that count as > "directly accepting mail from client IPs that you WANT to accept mail > from"? If it does, then the "internal only if it's not ...." test > says > the machine is not internal. >
This was all in the context of discussing this passage: >> [Ross] I thought it was internal only if I was sure it wasn't >> accepting mail >> from questionable IP's, and I'm not. > [Daryl] No. Internal only if it's not directly accepting mail from client IPs > that you WANT to accept mail from. MXes and everything (internal > relays) after them are ALWAYS in both trusted and internal networks. Sorry for the chatter.
