[IMail Forum] Open Servers

[Robert Hopkins]

This may sound naive but what is the reason for email servers to relay mail?  I never gave it any thought when we installed iMal but we now we are getting spammed big time and I installed declude.exe which taught me a ton about spam and mail servers.  Ours was wide open and we shut that off yesterday.   So back to my question, why do mail servers relay mail?     Robert Hopkins Hopkins Mailing Services, Inc. 758 W Racquet Club Drive Addison, IL  60101-4324 (630) 628-0088 Ext. 11