On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Paul C. Diem wrote:
>
> > > Qmail's default installation will prevent other sites from using
> > > you as a relay. That's because it puts the local domains into the
> > > files control/locals and control/rcpthosts.
> >
> > The way I understand this though is that if I put only my local domain in
> > rcpthosts, users within my domain which are using mail clients on PC's
> > will not be able to use me as a relay. They, obviously, need to be able to
> > send mail with a recipient of anywhere.
>
> If you put your domain in rcpthosts, in your case .foxvally.net,
> then as long as they are in the foxcally.net domain, they can use it.
That wasn't the experience we had....the day we switched many users called
complaining about the "you're not in my rcpthosts" error and couldn't send
mail to selected sites. Granted, others did go out, but it was flaky. We
deleted rcpthosts...
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