[Pkg-exim4-users] Re: [exim] relaying not permitted

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>
>> 2005-09-01 14:28:16 H=(Reception) [213.142.17.162]
>> F=<jennifer at riksettanslarmcentral.se> rejected RCPT 
>> <niklas at procura.nu>: relay
>> not permitted
>>
>> I checked to see if  the domain  213.142.17.162 was in relay_domains 
>> which it
>> was. Shouldn't that be enough to allow relay?
>
> 213.142.17.162 is an IP address not a domain name. procura.nu is the
> relevant domain name. If you want to be able to receive email to
> procura.nu it should be in either local_domains or in 
> relay_to_domains. If
> you want to be able to relay email from 213.142.17.162 it should be in
> relay_from_hosts. (This is assuming the default configuration file.)

When Tony says the network address (IP number) goes into 
relay_from_hosts, does this
translate to dc_relay_nets in update.conf.conf?

Jeremiah