It is because Open-relay is disabled on your server. This disallows spamming on your mail server. I'll advise you keep it that way. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Opeyemi Olomo Corporate Development, Ocean and Oil Holdings 10th Floor, The Octagon 13A AJ Marinho Drive, Victoria Island Lagos Office Tel No: +234 1 320 0818-9 Ext: 123 Mobile No: +234 802 291 0164 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Raj Purushothaman [mailto:raj07@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 11:32 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Relay and exchange http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi, when i try to telnet to my smtp server and then try to send a mail from command prompt to my friend it says "Unable to relay for jyothiraj@xxxxxxx ( that is my friend address) Why is this ??? What i mean is i can send to my friend through outlook .Why is it not possible through command prompt? I cannot understand how this is related with relaying. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and regards -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: o.olomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')