Anne Wilson wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:08 +0000: > These, it seems, are outgoing packets. No, they are incoming. They have various sources and one destination and I suppose that's your server's IP. So they are incoming. > open relay, Relaying is SMTP. And you will see all sorts of connects on SMTP, too, but this doesn't mean they all are relay attempts ;-) I just read Ned's reply and recognize I missed that part "my router" of your message. It's indeed just your packet filter reporting that it forwarded a packet on port 143 as instructed. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com