When I use a mail client (such outlook express) on a pc dialled in to my
ISP then I can send with no authentication.

send to where? you have to send to a non-Imail domain to see the no-relay action.


 Interestingl, if I telnet to
the server I get no joy

no joy doing what?


unless I use a local user ID.

use a local user ID for what?


 If I run the open
relay tools at abuse.net it passes all tests and reports that its not a
relay.

ok


I'm guessing that this is related to the port forwarding - the Imail
server is seeing the inbound (from outside) smtp stuff as originating
from itself and  so is sending it???

the NAT + port-forwarding will not change the source address, so Imail will see the source IP as if there were no NAT + port forwarding.


So on to my question - how secure am I?

If abuse.net can' relay, you're secure against SMTP relaying.


and what can I do to get it to behave as I want to

how do you want it to behave differently from what abuse.net found?


- ie anyone that sends

... to an non-Imail recipient domain ...


has to authenticate?

Len



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