A term that describes an alternate server that distributes e-mail. Often, a mail relay is used for distributing spam because of the resources it takes to distribute millions of e-mail messages and to help hide the identity. Today, most servers do not allow mail relays.

E-mail, E-mail terms, Internet terms, Spam

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