Re: The rcpthosts File and Mail Clients

[Andrew Richards <ar-djblists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 November 2007 05:07, mozafar rowshan wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
>     I know that in order to prevent from being (mis-)used as mail
> relay, qmail checks the recipient domain of incoming messages (from
> another mail server) by looking at the rcpthosts file. So, I like
> to know that: will qmail also check this file when the SMTP
> connection is from a mail client such as Kmail/Outlook...

Yes it will (for qmail it's just another SMTP connection). You can 
override this default behaviour with the RELAYCLIENT environment 
variable, typically set with tcpserver's -x option before it invokes 
qmail-smtpd.

cheers,

Andrew.
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