>If you use "Relay for Addresses" (which is one of the only two safe 
>options; 

That's how I have it.

>spammers should only be able to relay mail if they come from one of 
>the "safe" IPs that you allow

My guess is this is what's happening...?

>You're not looking in the right place.  :)

Figured as much...

The "SMTP" (or "SMTP-") lines are where your mailserver is sending mail to 
another.  In this case, you've sent a command (most likely "EHLO"), and 
they are responding to you.  They can send whatever they want in their 
response, and several mailservers will include your reverse DNS entry.

>>This portion:  adsl-210-151.tricom.net [200.42.210.151] is the reverse 
>>lookup record of my MX record, mailtest.enelpunto.net.  My question is:  
>>how is a spammer able to put that in the commands?

>They aren't -- if one of the two mailservers is sending spam in this case, 
>it's yours -- because you are sending mail to them.  You connected to their

>server.

Hmm...doesn't sound good.

>>Or, is this a completely legitimate line and I just don't understand 
>>the SMTP process well enough yet???

>:)
>It takes a while to understand SMTP transactions and the IMail logs.

All things come to those who wait......I hope!

>What you want to look for is only lines that have "SMTPD" in them (which 
>indicates E-mail that IMail is receiving).  

Here are a bunch of lines:

20020920 042112 127.0.0.1       SMTP (848) processing
d:\IMail\spool\Qda6e02a60048319f.SMD
20020920 042113 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] MAIL From:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042114 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] RCPT
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042114 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] RCPT
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042115 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] RCPT
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042116 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] RCPT
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042117 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] max RCPT
exceeded RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20020920 042117 127.0.0.1       SMTP (848) ldeliver almagapa.com vja-main
(1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7449
20020920 042117 127.0.0.1       SMTP (848) Trying yahoo.com (0)
20020920 042117 127.0.0.1       SMTPD (02A60048) [172.20.207.185] max RCPT
exceeded RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I've got max messages set to 5 as a way to try and slow this down a bit...

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