On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:05:04AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen an error message like this in exim:
> 1 spy2@post.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error
> from remote mailer after RCPT TO: <spy2@post.com>:
> host mail-intake-1.iname.net [165.251.8.194]: 522 <spy2@post.com>...
> User over hourly mail quota
> Possibly related, I have the following line in exim.conf:
> relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
That allows anyone who controls DNS for their domain to use you as a
backup MX. It won't let people relay from there to random hosts.
> I think this is redundant as I also have the following line for the domain I
> want to relay for:
> relay_domains = friendsdomain.com:*.friendsdomain.com
> Should I remove the relay_domains_include_local_mx? Is the error indicating
Yes - the explicit list is safer and renders the include_local_mx
redundant.
> Spam? Would removing the second line alleviate this?
It is probably the result of a spam (I've been seeing a number of mail
rejects with that sender) but to see what might have stopped it getting
in you'd need to look at where it came from. The error is a perfectly
reasonable one and could have been generated by completely legitimate
mail from your site.
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