[TriLUG] Trouble sending mail to RR addresses

Peter Long petelong at petelong.com
Wed Feb 18 09:21:52 EST 2004


Ben Pitzer said:
> Peter,
>
> That explanation aside, your best bet is to configure your mail server
> to 'smarthost' all of your outbound email through the RR outbound email
> servers.  If you get blocked from those, well, then I'd be double
> checking your machine as a potential open relay.  If you have never
> tested it as such, try this site:
>
> http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
>
Cool,

I setup smtp-server as my relayhost and things are happy again.
www.abuse.net reports no open relays.

It is ironic that I have to put extra load on smtp-server so that the
overall load on RR mailservers can be reduced. :)

-- 
Peter Long






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