Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/17/07 03:16

Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> Mails should not be relayed. They should go directly from your MTA to
>> the recipients MTA.
>>
>> Relays are an indication of an insecure system - typically used by
>> spammers. But genuine MTA's don't use (or need) them.
>
> Actually - thoroughly secured email systems make use of more than just
> those two.
>
> In large, well-secured, corporate email systems, mail often goes through
> several relays that perform various security actions.
>
> At Nortel, they relay through several Exchange servers on the way out
> of, and into, the network. At GTE, they relay(ed) through a wildly
> complex Banyan Vines system.
>
> It's sometimes quite interesting to check out the headers on various
> corporate emails because they go through SO MUCH e-bureaucracy.
>

You're right - internally they may be relayed. But once they're out of
the intranet and into the internet, there should be no relays.

I was referring to the publicly visible site - and I should have made
myself more clear about it.

Thanks for the correction.

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