OK, I'm quite happy that sites are tightening up on relaying. But it seems
that some sites go a little to far. Lately I've been receiving a large
number (well, nearly 50% by volume) of bounces from various sites telling
me that they don't relay. Well, that's great, but the address I'm trying
to deliver to is almost always right there in their domain, sometimes even
on the same machine.
Now this could be because of my setup; instead of being delivered by one
single mail server, outbound mail service is split among a number of hosts
at my site. (So the message passes from the list server host to one of
several outbound delivery hosts and finally to the destination site.) But
if this is really enough to trigger relaying errors then something is
really wrong.
Have other folks been seeing these kinds of errors, too? Are that many
sites just having teething pains and screwing it up the first time? Or is
what I'm doing really considered illegal relaying?
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