That, I believe, is as simple as not requiring the sender to log in and not requiring the sender to be in the local network either. I accidentally set up my James configuration like this and found my server transmitting huge amounts of spam in no time. Often I do not think the spammers even care to send a probe e-mail to check that the message arrives. Maybe they just bill the clients for the number of e-mails that were accepted by the abused servers...
If he is able create some trouble for the spammers in a legal manner I wish him the best of luck. Randahl -----Original Message----- From: bill parducci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24. februar 2003 16:25 To: James Users List Subject: Re: Spam Honeypot Noel J. Bergman wrote: > I was going to say that same thing to him. In fact, I had written it in my > note, but then I saw his comment about sending the mail to null, so I think > that he knows not to actually be an open relay. > > --- Noel i saw the same. however, how is he going to be an 'open relay' (to attract spammers) and then be dumping stuff to null? b --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
