[ale] Access file

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Carl,
	You'd have to check first to make sure the versions on both mail
servers are identical... In Sendmail I've seen subtle changes like that before
in the m4 recipes from one version to the next...

	On a personal note, I personally prefer to send spammers back a
4.5.4 non-fatal error rather than a 5xx error which is permanent... By using
a non-fatal error code it forces their server to continue to attempt to
deliver the message but of course it will fail... If they're hitting a lot
of people that adds up on their server and slows it down a bit...

	Respectfully,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	UnderGrid Network Services, LLC

Carl Forsell was said to been seen saying:
> In the /etc/mail/access file most of our servers  are set to allow relaying
> by adding a reference like to allow relaying:      www.oursite.com    RELAY,
> 
> and those we are filtering (spammers)  as:
>                                XXX.net  550   We do not accept spam mail.
> 
> This is working fine.
> 
> One server, set up by someone else, to filter uses the two syntaxes:
>                                abcd at efghijk.com    REJECT
>                                XXX.net  550   We do not accept spam mail.
> 
> to allow relaying:
>                               abcd.com    OK
> 
> Question 1:  does    (www.oursite.com    OK)  =  (www.oursite.com    RELAY)
> 
> Question 2:  does    (www.oursite.com    REJECT)  =  (www.oursite.com    550
> We do not accept spam mail.  )
> 
> (as per the discussion chain of the past few days, I have looked in 5 books
> and three web sites prior to posting this question.)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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