[Empeg-general] Re: BAEUG (Bay Area Empeg Users Group) Mailing List

[borislav@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

> I'm not sure which server generated the error (mine or megacity's), but the error (which I don't fully understand) is that one of the servers (mine, I think), has been identified by a piece of anti-spam security software called Orbs (which I think is running on megacity's majordomo machine) as having something called an "open relay", and therefore "does not like recipient".

"Open relay" refers to a machine on the internet that can be used to forward email without any authentication. Spammers often use them to cover their tracks. Orbs actively probes servers for this misfeature and publishes the results. Individual site operators can then use this list to do their own spam filtering.

It's a good idea except it's usually the end users that suffer if their system administrator hasn't configured their mail server properly. So you should complain to your system administrator or ISP.

Borislav