Re: Re[2]: Relaying with postfix

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 08:17:38 EST

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    Sipos Gabor:
    > It seems that I could make this thing working. We have only one
    > domain, so there is no need of transport maps (I think so, please
    > correct me if I'm wrong). I just added a relay_domains=my.domain and a
    > relayhost=[real.mail.server.ip], it seems that it's working correctly.
    >
    > Does accepting mail for count as open relaying?
    >
    > Should I set up the postmaster and abuse addresses locally, since my
    > real mail server actually does have these accounts?

    No this is inadequate. You are accepting mail for non-existent
    recipients and then sending bounces to innocent people whose
    address was used by some spammer or worm.

    Do it right.

    http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#firewall

            Wietse


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