Meanings
- not comparableNot relayable.
The proper strategy is not to accept mail for unrelayable addresses in the first place.
2009 May 3, David F. Skoll, “Request for feature - Option "ExtendedErrorDrop" => do not generate NDR.”, in comp.mail.sendmail (Usenet)2 more examples
You also could rename mslocal,wpcsin,wpcsout in the domain dir, then bring up MTA, then gwia, should clear all spam...unfortunately, also any email you had waiting to go..just have users resend....there is a beta gwia (sp5) tehat^([sic]) supposedly fixes the "" problem in relay, so then you would be totally unrelayable!
2001 August 17, Herb Meyerowitz, “SMTP Relay HELP!”, in novell.support.collaboration.groupwise5.administration (Usenet)OL2000 would just hold these unrelayable messages until I was on the LAN connection or the dedicated dialup, i.e., it would not send them if I was using my home ISP.
2001 October 18, Luis Mederos, “Outlook XP "sends" unrelayable msgs”, in microsoft.public.outlook (Usenet)
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unrelayable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unrelayable
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