On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails
> that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of
> stuff I don't recognize.
>
> I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for,
> to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point
> me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big,
> if I know the appropriate FM to R.
>
You can check if your machine is an open relay by using telnet to
relay-test.mail-abuse.org from the machine which runs the mail.
An other alternative is to use their webinterface
(http://www.abuse.net/relay.html) but I have no experience with that one.
Thanks for the links. To my relief, they both reported all relay attempts
were blocked. So the bounces were spammers spoofing my address
as a return, I suppose. And there's nothing I can do to stop that.
Sigh.
++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
