reject mail hosts

Mikhail Goriachev mikhailg at webanoide.org
Tue May 22 10:03:00 UTC 2007


Jack Barnett wrote:
> This is in the "daily run output".  Anyone know what this means?  It's 
> it someone trying to relay/spam though me?

That's right. Someone's trying to deliver/relay e-mails through your
system and such attempts get logged and reported to you.

> Checking for rejected mail hosts:
>    2 bcast.americansingles.com (553... exist)
>    1 gmail.com (550... denied)
>    1 aol.com (550... denied)
>    1 < (553... required)


553... exist: domain of sender doesn't exist
550... denied: relaying denied / authentication required



You shouldn't worry about it.


Regards,
Mikhail.

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