It is so important that to make sure your mail server is not open relayed. Otherwise, after a while your mail server is opening your mail server's IP address will be registed on at least one of the blacklist and you will start getting email problems. In order to prevent this happening, testing on a regular basis is quite important to a system administrator. Here is a simply procedure to test if the relay on your mail server is opened.
In Dos-prompt window, type telnet domain-name.com 25 to