Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:

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> Renaud Allard  writes:

>

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

>> (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.

> 

Indeed, but it could cause you to get blacklisted by some automated

checkers, which is clearly something you don't want. I know this kind of

checker is not accurate, but some local checkers will do it that way and

you will end up with the problems.
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