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[Karl Larsen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>
>   
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>     
>>> Ken McLennan wrote:
>>> SNIP
>>>       
> I haven't - I wish _more_ ISPs would block insecure mail - but they have to
> be prepared to prove that their own mail servers are secure.  Why more ISPs
> aren't using SPF I don't understand, and my own ISP doesn't understand the
> concept of TLS and wanted to charge me more to use it.  
>   
    I read the man exim and found that exim -bl sets up exim as an smtp 
demon. So I did that and now I get this:

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A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
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  k5di at zianet.com
    Mailing to remote domains not supported

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From: "Karl F. Larsen" <karl at karl-hardy>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:37 -0600

This is a test
&

    Notice it says it can't forward to remote domains. Anyone know how 
to fix this in Exim? :-)

I bet it's not simple.

Karl

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