At 3:34 PM -0800 01/08/2003, Craig Bowers wrote:
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>From: Craig Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:30 AM
>To: SIMS Discussions
>Subject: Re: Open relay detected within your network
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>> ... one can only wonder. What the router line says is, "if I receive
>mail for 3-rivers.com, relay it to 3-rivers.com's smtp server"
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>Quibbling with your wording, but the secondary is a 3-rivers.com smtp
>server as well.  I'd word it more like :if I receive mail for
>3-rivers.com, do a DNS lookup on 3-rivers.com and pass it to the first
>MX available with a higher priority (lower MX value) than me (a backup
>MX server), starting with the highest priority (lowest MX value).

I was just trying to keep the explanation simple, my point being, this is an explicit 
instruction to relay.

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>Follow-up question:
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>Do you have the IP of the primary SMTP server in the client list of your
>secondary?

Yes, Paul does.

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>I'm puzzled what generates the "will relay for a client" on your
>secondary.

I suspect it is, as has been noted, the primary's IP in the secondary's client list.

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>In my own system which passes the ordb tests, I have the IP of the
>secondary in the primaries client list, but the client list on my
>secondary is empty.

Me too.

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>I wouldn't have a need even for the secondary IP to be listed as a
>client on the primary (the .smtp rounter entry alone is sufficient),
>except that I've had some instances where spammers have gotten my
>primary to temp ban my secondary.

Me too.

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>Oh, and I'm using 1.8b9d14

Me too. Again, the point being, lots of us have a setup similar to Paul's and we don't 
have this problem. Paul does. The only seemingly significant difference being that 
primary's IP in the secondary's client list. I think it's more than coincidence, which 
is why I brought it up.

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