Is your server using authentication on the relay-host?
If not this MUST NOT work because if it would work the
relayserver coul be used from everybody out there for spam

Am 14.02.2011 08:59, schrieb Georg Schönweger:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday i received a failure-notice;
> Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 <i...@domain.com>: Relay access denied -->
> this is the error-message which i received from the final recipient.
> The email was send from our webserver. The webserver (postfix) sends the
> email via relayhost (another external postfix Server) to the world outside.
> Does this mean that the email provider from the recipient doesn't allow
> the use of relayhosts? Is it generally better to not use relayhosts?
> ..we had problems with spam some years ago if we sent mails directly
> with postfix, so we used our external email provider as relayhost. But i
> think this was because we didn't have a valid RDNS entry. So should i
> switch off the relayhost?

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