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Re: Understanding the process

From: Adam Young (adamvbfx.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 11:44:31 CDT


On Sat, 24 May 2003 09:33:02 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepardappl-ecosys.com> wrote:

This could simply be when your mail server is bouncing messages (for the first
host), the private ip addresses I'm not sure of though.

> On Sat, 24 May 2003, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> > Huh? This merely indicates problems when SENDING mail to
> > relay.techcom.on.ca, 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.1
>
> That's what confused me, Ralf. Neither of us tried to send mail to either
> Canada nor to non-reachable IP addresses. What I suspect, when I see these
> smtp messages, is that someone's tried to use our server as a relay, but
> without success. I believe that you've confirmed my suspicion. And, since I
> was the only one logged on the network yesterday I can be certain that the
> messages did not originate here.

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