How to test for Open Relay

[slylos]

I finally got around to configuring my home server for SMTP-Auth. it seems to work fine, and does not seem to be an open relay (I ran some free tests on the internet). I also ran a telnet test:

mail from: <john@smith.com>
250 ok
rcpt to: <slylos@yahoo.com>
250 ok
quit
221 closing connection

I checked my yahoo address up to an hour later, and never got the email. I suppose qmail accepts the message and then drops it. Is there another way to test for open relay?

 

[slylos]

Ok well nevermind, I setup an outlook express client on a remote computer, with a competely fake identity and was successful in sending mail anywhere I wanted. So I guess I have an open relay. I put rcpthosts back in place and thats shut down. But I can't get stinkin qmail-smtpauth to work! Why is it so stinkin hard!!! This is so frustrating. I convinced my boss to leave our $20 a month hosting company and move everything in house. And now we can't even relay mail properly. I didn't know it was going to be this tough to relay mail, had I known that, I would've pitched MS Exchange . . . not really, but I'm just so frustrated . . .

 

[slylos]

I got it!! I just wasn't following directions . . .