>> >>> RCPT TO:<"relaytest%abuse.net">
>> <<< 250 ok
>
>> Relay test result
>> Uh oh, host appeared to accept a message for relay.
>
>The percent sign does not have any special meaning to qmail in
>this case. The address given is an address without a host-
>part, like e.g. a plain "root" is. In most cases qmail will later
>determine that a user with the name "relaytest%abuse.net" does not
>exist locally and bounce the message. It is doing nothing wrong.
>
>Abuse.net is concluding too rash.
Abuse.net is concluding nothing, other than that it wishes that people
would read the sentence following the one he quoted. It says:
The host may reject this message internally; if it is really an
open relay, the test message will be delivered to you.
I know how qmail works, I use it myself. At some point I will try to
make the relay tester reorder the tests based on what MTA it appears
to be testing. I will probably put in some more bright blinking
messages like THIS DOES NOT PROVE WHETHER THIS HOST IS A RELAY OR NOT
but from experience I know that nobody will read them and they'll
complain that I'm misdiagnosing them anyway.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl,
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