Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Renaud Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me >> (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously >> not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting >> everything, even when a spamd.alloweddomains file is present. > > I would say that a more accurate description of spamd's behavior with > respect to relay checkers would be 'appears to accept but does not > forward'. What you are seeing is most likely that the relay checker > performs a limited parse of the SMTP dialogue but does not check if > its test message is actually forwarded. This is AFAIK the intended > behavior, and it might even fool gullible spammers. >
Indeed, but it could cause you to get blacklisted by some automated checkers, which is clearly something you don't want. I know this kind of checker is not accurate, but some local checkers will do it that way and you will end up with the problems. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
