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open relay question

Last post 10-10-2007, 8:09 AM by Anonymous. 2 replies.
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  •  09-09-2007, 10:18 AM 969

    open relay question

    Hi,

    Your monitor is reporting that our server 'may be an open relay' and I was wondering if that could be related to our sending out a rather large (valid) eblast?

    Thanks!

     

     

  •  09-10-2007, 10:32 AM 981 in reply to 969

    Re: open relay question

    In all likelihood, these two events are unrelated. However, both will probably cause delivery problems.
  •  10-10-2007, 8:09 AM 1061 in reply to 981

    Re: open relay question

    If your MTA is Exim (CPanel), you *might* getting a false positive from the MXToolBox diagnostic. I went to the CPanel forums and asked other Exim users to try the MXToolBox diagnostic and I have received feedback that others get this "You may have an open relay" message as well. However, if you try to actually relay a message, Exim will properly issue an error message and dump the connection. CPanel makes it very difficult to configure Exim as an open relay. Unfortunately, I have run into people who use the MXToolbox diagnostic to create their own gray/blacklist. :-(

    Mark
     

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