Re: Children of ORBS
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 14:18:42 +0100
Anders Andersson said:
>>> The host you submitted at ORDB.org (xx.xx.xx.xx), has been thoroughly
>>> checked, and does not seem to permit relaying.
>>>
>>> Please note however, that this may be caused by extreme delays at
>>> the servers end.
>
> There should be no extreme delays in "550 Relaying denied"...
Not every relaying attempt *should* get that.
Consider "a%b@localhost", which is - or used to be - a common relaying technique.
My laptop's SMTP server (correctly) delivers such email to the local user
"a%b" and so does not return a 550 code; why should it ?
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