>Anyhow, to make a long story short -- and a word of warning to all --
>shortly after doing this, in some cases within hours - I started to see
>some odd things in our logs. Apparently some of the anti-spam bots checking
>our servers for relaying etc.

that's not odd, it's normal

>  We have relaying secured, but sure enough, all of a sudden we started
>having problems on a couple of these servers we had never had problems
>with. In both of these cases, all of a sudden we're getting reports from
>clients that email they are sending is getting returned with a message that
>the return address was rejected by a recipient mail server. Unfortunately,
>I can't tell from the messages which list these ISP's/hosting companies may
>be using.

some MTA's suck or the MTA's admins suck, the text with the reject code 
should contain the reason.

>I've ran these IP's again and they still aren't showing up on any listings.
>But the problems with rejected emails are increasing. Anyone have any ideas
>on what might be the cause of this?

show us some imail logs, the "SMTP-" lines only.

Len



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