turning off relaying in exim

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Raul. Thanks for the info fixed it

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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> Igor Gueths said the following on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:37:31PM -0400:
> > Hi all. Recently when testing some avenues into my system, I came across
> > the fact that I was relaying mail from my domain to anywhere on the
> > internet. I wanted to disable this, so I went into /etc/exim.conf and
> > commented out relay_domains. However after restarting exim, relaying still
> > seems to be turned on. Does anyone know how to turn it off or whether or
> > not there are other files where relaying could be turned on? Thanks!
>
> Don't comment it out.  Instead leave it as is but don't put any domains
> in the line after the equal sign.
>
> Also, check the line:
>
> local_domains = localhost
>
> So that only your host can relay though.
>
> One more setting, host allow line like this:
>
> host_accept_relay = "127.0.0.1:192.168.1.0/7"
>
> So that you can allow specific ips to relay.  if you only specify
> localhost then that is all that is allowed.
>  Good luck.
>
> >
> > microsoft dialogue
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> >    If the problem persists, delete winblows and install linux
> >    close button
> >
> >
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