On Saturday 17 Jan 2004 1:02 pm, jason pearl wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:02:26 -0500
> >Also, once you get the mail server up, you might want to run a quick > >test to check for open relays. > > From the machine telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org > > i got this when i opened telnet: > > telnet> open > (to) 68.99.95.93 25 > Trying 68.99.95.93... > Connected to ip68-99-95-93.ph.ph.cox.net (68.99.95.93). > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 jpearl.org ESMTP Postfix (2.0.13) (Mandrake Linux) > That's a really useful service, thanks Bryan. For what it's worth this is my result, showing everything OK: ------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org Trying 168.61.4.13... Connected to relay-test.mail-abuse.org (168.61.4.13). Escape character is '^]'. Connecting to 195.149.48.33 ... <<< 220 mercury.soronlin.org.uk ESMTP Postfix (2.0.13) (Mandrake Linux) >>> HELO cygnus.mail-abuse.org <<< 250 mercury.soronlin.org.uk :Relay test: #Quote test >>> mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 250 Ok >>> rcpt to: <"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> <<< 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied >>> rset <<< 250 Ok :Relay test: #Test 1 >>> mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 250 Ok >>> rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied >>> rset <<< 250 Ok ... for 20 tests >>> QUIT <<< 221 Bye Tested host banner: 220 mercury.soronlin.org.uk ESMTP Postfix (2.0.13) (Mandrake Linux) System appeared to reject relay attempts Connection closed by foreign host. ------------------------------------------------- jason, do you not get: >>> HELO cygnus.mail-abuse.org I don't understand how that could happen, but it's probably a Postfix or xinetd problem. -- Richard Urwin
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