[cobalt-users] Email Relay Bug (?) (WAS: Removing the POP before SMTP pkg)

["Fathi Said" <fathi@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I can't look through the relay option with the RaQ2, maybe someone can explain it for
me........

In my relay list there are the names of all virtual sites hosted on this server and their IP addresses.

Now, the following scenario

* I want to send an email to afriend@xxxxxxxxxxx
* This email should be sent with my email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx email address
* a-virtualsite.com is hosted  my server
* I have a dial-up Internet account with a local ISP, and my IP address is NOT listed in the relay field (as I already said, only
the names and IPs of the virtual sites are in there).

Now, the strange thing is this behaviour:
When I send an email to afriend@xxxxxxxxxxx (inrussia.ru is NOT hosted on my server), I get the "Relaying denied" error. If I add
"inrussia.ru" OR "ru" to my relay list, the mail can be sent without any problems, although my IP address (that I get from my ISP
everytime I dial-in) is NOT listed. Shouldn't the Relay list *only* relay email FROM hosts whom's IP addresses are listed in the
Relay field?

Thanks for any clues! :-)

Fathi