>Thanks for your reply. I just ran the open relay test at abuse.net. My
>system passes all test except the one where a message is sent to "invalid
>user"@mydomain. an excerpt of the test report is pasted below.
> >>> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I ultimately do receive this test message and that is why I indicated my
>understanding that my server is being seen as an open relay.
If you received the E-mail, you are not an open relay.
The reason they *thought* you might be an open relay is because your
mailserver accepted an E-mail to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Although it looks like the
E-mail is to a non-existent user on your domain, the "%" in there is
actually from an old routing method, where the E-mail would get delivered
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you received it (and it didn't get sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]), then you are not an open relay (since a spammer
wouldn't be able to send out mail using that method).
-Scott
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