Michael T. Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just decided to manually run the RSS relay tests (telnet to
> mail-abuse.org, and it will start a relay test on the machine that connected
> to it). qmail, of course, didn't relay any messages, but I was wondering
> why it gave one response it did:
>
> Relay test 7
> >>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[216.168.105.33]>
> <<< 250 ok
> >>> RCPT TO:<"nobody%mail-abuse.org">
> <<< 250 ok
> >>> RSET
> <<< 250 flushed
>
> Why the '250 ok' ? Why would it accept "nobody%mail-abuse.org"? Maybe I
> need to re-read the RFCs?
Because there's no domain, so it defaults to @me -- i.e., qmail will accept
this email and try to deliver it to the local user named "nobody%mail-abuse.org"
at your default domain. Probably it will end up bouncing, unless you have
an ~alias/.qmail-default.
Charles
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Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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