reject mail hosts

Jack Barnett jackbarnett at gmail.com
Tue May 22 13:56:50 UTC 2007


Thanks for the info.

If all of those requests have been denied (by the way, which file are 
those logged into?) - then have any of them worked?

I just want to make sure I'm not relaying/accepting spam!

-J

Mikhail Goriachev wrote:
> 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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