Re: Refused Email

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From: Administrator (administrator_at_norepliesplease.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:11:38 -0400

Run the quick test utility on http://aboutmydns.com and it will tell you exactly what your server returns in response to
a relay attempt.

AnytimeAnywhere wrote:

> I've got Exchange 5.5 SP4 on a Windows NT 4.0 SP6a server. I have several
> domains that I use for our different divisions. I have email addresses
> setup for these other domains (through Exchange) and they work without
> problem until yesterday. Yesterday, I added an email address to an email
> account for a domain name that we own. When I tested it by sending a
> message to it from Yahoo, it was refused with the following message:
>
> Message from yahoo.com.
> Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
>
> <jim@abc.com>:
> <IP address of server> does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 550 Relaying is prohibited
> Giving up on <IP address of server>.
>
> I know I have relaying blocked, but this shouldn't be relaying (if I
> understand relaying). Is there a setting in Exchange I need to check?
> Something with my ISP?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>

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