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Re: RBL report..



Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> > I don't see how you can create a false positive on a relay test. Either
> > the message gets through, and you're an open relay, or it doesn't, and
> > you're fine. It's quite simple, really.
> Actually, I ran the relay test at abuse.net on two of my domains last
> night. One of the tests results in an email being accepted but not
> actually sent. It sends a message from your own domain to another address;
> exim accepts those, but then they don't get sent.

Yes, and ORBS tests if the email gets sent or not.  Your point?

[It tries to relay some mail From some address A to another address B
and waits for the mail to arrive at B.  It's hard to see how this
could be any simpler.]

jason
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