Re: Re[4]: Relaying with postfix

From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 08:54:36 EST

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    On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:49:05 +0100
    Sipos Gabor <> wrote:

    > >> 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?
    >
    > WV> No this is inadequate. You are accepting mail for non-existent
    > WV> recipients and then sending bounces to innocent people whose
    > WV> address was used by some spammer or worm.
    >
    > And exactly what am I supposed to do with undeliverable mail...?
    >

    Refuse to accept it in the first place.

    The matter has been debated often enough on this list.

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