Hello, I'm running JAMES 2.3.1.


I've recently found that spam is being sent through my server.  I know
this because there are a great many delivery messages in the JAMES logs
for email addresses I haven't sent anything to and I'm the only user of
this server.  (And in fact, I'm having to use this Hotmail account
because my attempt to join the mailing list with my standard email
address was rejected by the Apache Foundation's email server with a
message about spam score.)



I have SMTP authentication enabled.  I don't know for sure that the
following is the way the spam is being sent; but through various testing
tools and by experimenting in telnet looking at the SMTP exchange I
have discovered that as I'd expect, if RCPT TO: is set to a normal
email address you get an immediate response of "530 5.7.1
Authentication Required",  whereas if the RCPT TO: contains an address
including a routing instruction that directs the route through my
server's IP address (so of the form
<recipientname%recipientdom...@[my.server's.ip.address]>) then
it's accepted with "250 2.1.5 Recipient 
<recipientname%recipientdom...@[my.server's.ip.address]>
OK" and after the DATA section of the message is delivered the response
is "250 Mail queued for delivery".



So my question is, is this the expected behavior?



Thanks,
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