sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested my mail-server via abuse.net's mail-relay tester. - Never got any positives. Now suddenly I receive one: This

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested my mail-server via abuse.net's mail-relay tester. - Never got any positives. Now

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested my

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:51:36 +0100 Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.net replied: Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested my mail-server via abuse.net's

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 08:21 -0500 schrieb Jerry: On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:51:36 +0100 Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.net replied: Hi, I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I am running my own small mail-server, i.e. I use my desktop pc for sending and receiving my private mails. That worked quite nicely the last years. From time to time I tested

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: find the records in /var/mail/maillog to show abuse.net's server connecting Ooops./var/log/maillog Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:45 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Matthew Seaman wrote: find the records in /var/mail/maillog to show abuse.net's server connecting Ooops./var/log/maillog That would be those: cat maillog | grep

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:45 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Matthew Seaman wrote: find the records in /var/mail/maillog to show abuse.net's server connecting Ooops./var/log/maillog That would be those:

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: BTW. I have read somewhere, there might be problems with hostnames like pukruppa.net, since they would allow to relay all mails from .net ?!? I'm trying to remember where this appears. I remember vaguely what you're referring to, and yes, it's a theoretical

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:33:54 +0100 Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.net replied: I just tried and received a Relaying denied response. By the way, I noticed that you apparently do not employ SMTP Authentication or offer STARTTLS on either port 25 or 587. You might want to consider

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Something doesn't add up here -- the log shows the message being processed by SpamAssassin, but there was no indication in the sendmail .mc file you showed us of any integration with a spam filter. I'd expect some sort of milter configuration. spamassassin came with evolution (Gnome's

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 292, Issue 3, Message: 10 On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:42:28 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 13:02 + schrieb Matthew Seaman: Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I am running my