antirelayd necessary?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by trichnosis, Dec 16, 2008.

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    Hi;

    i was looking at the service mananger on on whm . i have found that "antirelayd" is working.

    what is antirelayd ? and is it a necessary process
     
    trichnosis, Dec 16, 2008 IP
  2. sparek

    sparek Peon

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    antirelayd is used for POP-before-SMTP authentication.

    Are you sending out mail from an e-mail application through this server?

    Are you using SMTP authentication?

    If all of the e-mail users on the server that send out mail through the server are using SMTP authentication to authenticate themselves, then antirelayd is not needed.

    antirelayd is just used to whitelist IPs that have checked valid POP or IMAP accounts on the server within the past 30 minutes or so, and enables them to send out mail through the server.
     
    sparek, Dec 16, 2008 IP
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    afaik it isn't a security risk.
     
    SSANZ, Dec 16, 2008 IP
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    It's not really needed anymore because all cpanel servers are using SMTP authentication by default.
     
    hostsvault, Dec 17, 2008 IP