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Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender: msg#00326

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Subject: Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Quoting ccostelloe@xxxxxxxxx:

> What caught me out was using Sophos Anti Virus: it passed the emails
> to Postfix, which saw them coming from localhost, which effectively
> bypassed Postfix's anti-relaying rules.

The phrase "Well, Don't Do That, Then" seems to come readily to mind,
reading the above.

(Any mail-processing software such as -- yuck -- antiviral software that
bypasses your MTA's anti-relaying rules seems to have a design defect.
And understanding how your mail system works would seem prerequisite to
checking its security functions.)

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Rick Moen and the inability to sit still."
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