Colin (or anyone else interested)
Relaying is the act of using someone's mail server to send e-mail
somewhere, but not to them.
It's like me sending mail to Colin, but asking Microsoft's mail
server to deliver it for me. No-one likes their bandwidth or
machine horsepower being used for free by other people, which is
why mail servers mostly do not permit relaying.
Additionally, servers that will allow relaying allow spammers
to upload one copy of a spam message, with a huge list of
recipients, letting the poor mail server do all the hard work
of delivering to tens of thousands of hapless recipients.
If you're sending mail around and getting errors about relaying
not being permitted, it's due to a cock-up somewhere, but not
usually your own. Someone somewhere has mis-configured a bit
of Internet.
Someone not accepting relayed e-mail is not an acceptable reason
for mail not arriving: the problem lies somewhere else...
Cheers,
--Chris (in a slightly techie moment...)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> catman
> Sent: 16 May 2001 17:10
> To: joni
> Subject: cindy/sue NJC
>
>
> I cannot get mail to either of you. My ISOP is looking into why since
> both of yoiu have had mails from me before. Something to do with you
> ened not accpeting 'relays' whatever that means. Howevrer, this end has
> alwyas been that type of mail.
>
> --
> bw
> colin
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