[Info-vax] email forwarding

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <000851c2$0$2158$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> A note worth mentioning:
> 
> When you place a .dis file in the TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON directory, this
> becomes a distribution list usable by the WORLD.

Right---whatever the file protections.

> The SMTP receiver sees a local destination mylist at myhost.com, so the
> "don't relay" rules don't apply. The SMTP symbiont doesn't implement the
> "don't relay" rules and it just processes the list whether it is from a
> local or foreign sender.
> 
> In essence anyone can send to that distribution list, there is no
> security on who can and cannot send to it. This is quite different from
> distribution lists that are stored on your home directory.

That's what I want.  (The email relay for a newsgroup I moderated is 
going away in a few weeks, and I have set up my cluster to act as an 
email reflector for the group.)