Hi John ,,,,,,,,,, It seems that the voyager.net server thinks your server is an open relay, an open relay server is a server that spammers and virus writers love to use to hide their identity. By routing their mail through several of these "open relay" sites, spammers can obliterate the true origin of the spam. It would be equivalent to you being able to compose a letter and address it in such a way that it would be sent to one city who would "relay" it on to another city who would "relay" it on to another city before reaching its' final destination and each "relay" destroyed the return address. Normal mail routing does not destroy the original sender address. Many servers maintain a list of known spammer servers and will refuse to accept email from them. Some servers end up on these lists unjustly, not because of the contents of their mail but because of the volume, RootsWeb is one that gets put on these lists on a regular basis because of their volume of mail. I had it happen to me, I was using a server that was rejected by another server. I called my ISP and complained about it, just so happened my ISP used more than one mail server so they switched me over to the other server and have had no more problems. You need to call your ISP , tell them what happened and is there anything they can do about it. Bob Hays _________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Line" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: [OE] Returned Mail > Can anybody enlighten me as to the reason this mail was returned? I know it > says 'your server is an open relay' as the reason, I just don't know what > that means...! > > John in Thunder Alley, Lincolnshire (or so it seems today!) > ******************************************************************* > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:17 PM > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. The following address(es) failed: > > ji********@voyager.net: > SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL > FROM:<[email protected]>: > host b.mx.voyager.net [216.93.66.111]: > 550 5.7.1 *** Your server is an open relay *** > > Return-path: <[email protected]> > Received: from modem-877.cruncher.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.25.235.109] > helo=pbncomputer) > by cmailg7.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) > id 15b3X5-0005Y4-00; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:17:11 +0100 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > From: "John Line" <[email protected]> > To: "Jim & Colleen" <ji*********@voyager.net>, > <[email protected]> > References: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HUMOR] Top Ten > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:16:39 +0100 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 > > > > ==== OUTLOOK-EXPRESS Mailing List ==== > To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >