Jen Franklin wrote:
>
> Today the postmaster "account" recevied about 20 messages stating unable
> to deliver mail, unable to return to sender. Neither address was a local
> address in any of these cases.
>
> Our rcpthosts file only lists our domains.
> When I telneted into port 25 however and tried to mail from: a remote
> address and rcpt to: a remote address I recevied a 250 ok.
>
> I am new to qmail but I have read the "Qmail newbie's guide to relaying"
> and I thought when I sent from a remote email address to a remote email
> address I should have received a 553 domain not in allowed rcpthosts
> message. None of the mail i was trying to deliver has appeared in the
> remote accounts I was using.
>
If the mail never got there, you're not relaying. An open relay would
have immediately sent the mail on to the proper SMTP host for delivering
to the account in question. The part of qmail that talks to the network
has no idea about the part of qmail that knows what users are local, and
what are not. At least I can reassure you on that score.... Perhaps
others on the list could be more helpful as to why your server does
_not_ say:
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)
like mine do...
GW
