On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:49:40PM -0400, Soffen, Matthew wrote:
> It looks to me that many machines running qmail will die on test 6.
>
> I tried my personal email server, one I do consulting for, the one at
> abuse.net, and muncher.math.uic.edu. It looks like all of them fail at
> Test 6.
>
> However when I ran the test on vix's mailer, it passed all the tests.
> The only reason it passes is that it checks the sender address BEFORE
> attempting to deliver. I also ran the test on Sendmail.org's server.
> It passes as well.
>
> I have a question though, how valid is testing
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to see if the address
> fails/rejected ?
> The mail server would HAVE to process the % hack. Its NOT necessarily a
> valid test on all servers. Its only appropriate to test this on servers
> who HAVE the % hack enabled.
>
> Comments ?
>
> Matt Soffen
As stated many times before, the only valid proof that a relay test has
worked is a delivered message. If the message doesn't get delivered, then
the relay test didn't work. Period.
--Adam
