Re: help with backscatter

From: Jorey Bump (no email)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 15:43:35 EST

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    Chris Harms wrote:

    > To those who have kindly told me to go to the Sendmail groups, I suspect
    > Cyrus plays a part in our problem. I'm now fairly certain that our
    > access db is misconfigured, with the reason stemming from using
    > "To:domain.tld RELAY" as a workaround for Sendmail not delivering to
    > Cyrus many moons ago. I don't think we should need to do this, but I
    > distinctly recall it NOT working if we didn't have it in there. I
    > suppose the 'duct tape' is coming unglued now. I'm currently working on
    > putting together a development machine to try out 2.3.7 and removal of
    > the aforementioned lines in access db.
    >
    > Any pointers on whether my hunch about the access file is correct or not
    > are welcome.

    Allowing sendmail to relay based on header information is a recipe for
    disaster. It's possible that this is the cause of your problem, if
    sendmail is accepting messages from dictionary attacks and cyrus is
    refusing to deliver them.

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