Re: [cobalt-users] Pop before SMTP - I've had enough.

[Brent Sims <bs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Revd leonard payne wrote:

} Once a month, they send me an email magazine. However, when their server
} tries to send it to me, MY server responds with the relaying denied message
} .. check your mail.

Hi Revd,

	There is no way to tell without knowing the originating URL
and seeing the headers of the messages, however, this very well may
be the result of a misconfiguration on the senders end. We, for
example, have an installation of Mailman which is shared by many
users. Mailman allows any user to change the hostname from which the
messages appear have been sent. If a user whose site is hosted
elsewhere does this, changing the hostname to their domain name
which resolves to another IP address, the outgoing messages will use
their domain name as the hostname but will have been sent from an IP
address that resolves to one of our domains and that produces a
relaying denyed message from many well configured mail servers.

	Peace be with you,

	Brent Sims
	WebOkay Internet Services, LLC
	http://www.WebOkay.net
	mailto: Brent@xxxxxxxxxxx
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