On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:05:04AM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > Has anyone ever seen an error message like this in exim:
> 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: SMTP error > from remote mailer after RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > host mail-intake-1.iname.net [165.251.8.194]: 522 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > User over hourly mail quota > Possibly related, I have the following line in exim.conf: > relay_domains_include_local_mx = true That allows anyone who controls DNS for their domain to use you as a backup MX. It won't let people relay from there to random hosts. > I think this is redundant as I also have the following line for the domain I > want to relay for: > relay_domains = friendsdomain.com:*.friendsdomain.com > Should I remove the relay_domains_include_local_mx? Is the error indicating Yes - the explicit list is safer and renders the include_local_mx redundant. > Spam? Would removing the second line alleviate this? It is probably the result of a spam (I've been seeing a number of mail rejects with that sender) but to see what might have stopped it getting in you'd need to look at where it came from. The error is a perfectly reasonable one and could have been generated by completely legitimate mail from your site. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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