<snip>i ran a test for open-relay by telnetting relay-test.mail-abuse.org the test showed that i failed at test#11 i would greatly appreciate comments/advise on this.
You're not an open relay this test is worthless. As mail-abuse only tests for your server accepting the message not actually relaying it any where. You can just ignore it, if you want to be extra sure run this command.
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl | grep percenthack
If you see the following line you're for sure safe
percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
This test is centered around sendmail, as if sendmail accepts a % hack message it will relay it (as far as I know at least). Where as qmail will accept the message but without the percenthack behaviour explicitly turned on qmail will NOT relay the message out.
--Mike
