Renaud Allard  writes:
> I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me

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> (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously

> not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting

> everything, even when a spamd.alloweddomains file is present. 

I would say that a more accurate description of spamd's behavior with

respect to relay checkers would be 'appears to accept but does not

forward'.  What you are seeing is most likely that the relay checker

performs a limited parse of the SMTP dialogue but does not check if

its test message is actually forwarded.  This is AFAIK the intended

behavior, and it might even fool gullible spammers.
--

Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/

"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"

delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.