Re: Mac OS X Server Mail Problem

In article <1h7z81u.nzoh65ciz9maN%dfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dale Friesen
<dfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David C. Stone <no.email@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It sounds like you simply have not configured the "accept mail for
> > domains" correctly. Either that, or there is something funky with your
> > server's name and your domain dns settings.
>
> For what it's worth, you were right. I hadn't properly configured
> "mydestination" in postfix. Thanks for pointing me in the right
> direction.
>

So does it work now?

That's the thing about hosting virtual domains on a mail server
- you have to tell the software which domains it is accepting
mail for. You don't want to blindly accept mail for any domain,
or you'll be a wide-open spam relay.

And just in case, that is NOT the same as the "accept mail FROM"
domain list!!

A couple of other things:

- I'd only accept mail from authenticated users using one of the
standard (encrypted) authentication schemes

- make sure that no-one has a bonehead password; spammers have
successfully guessed username/password combinations and sent spam
through authenticated-sender servers. The classic is to use the
user name or domain name as the password - ouch!
.

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