Re: [Exim] Closing an open relay

Hi Patrick, on Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:47:55 -0500 you wrote:

> Thanks for your response. I thought that was the case, but I don't
> consider myself an expert e-mail administrator, and since the abuse.net
> relay checker indicated an open relay I thought it would be best to ask
> for another opinion. All the other relay tests that abuse.net performed
> passed, so I guess I don't need to panic.

If in any doubt, use the very handy relay tester from mail-abuse.org. From
a shell *on the server*, telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org and it will
connect back to you and run tests, showing you the results in the telnet
session.


Tim