phew, thx Mike....but then another test i did was quite ALARMING. the test from http://members.iinet.net.au/~remmie/relay/ was ABLE to send an email to me from @imap.example.com ------------------------------------------------ Default domain is staff.iinet.net.au Connecting to imap.example.com ...
<<< 220 imap.example.com ESMTP >>>> HELO staff.iinet.net.au <<< 250 imap.example.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> MAIL FROM: <<< 250 ok >>>> RCPT TO: <<< 250 ok >>>> DATA <<< 354 go ahead >>>> MESSAGE <<< 250 ok 1054261976 qp 8396 SUCCESS Relay Accepted - final response code 250 ---------------------------------------------- i have populated control/badmailfrom-unknown with @imap.example.com but it still goes thru. please advise. -- roger --- Mike Roest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Thomas wrote: > > i ran a test for open-relay by telnetting relay-test.mail-abuse.org > > the test showed that i failed at test#11 > > i would greatly appreciate comments/advise on this. > <snip> > You're not an open relay this test is worthless. As mail-abuse only > tests for your server accepting the message not actually relaying it any > where. You can just ignore it, if you want to be extra sure run this > command. > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl | grep percenthack > > If you see the following line you're for sure safe > > percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. > > This test is centered around sendmail, as if sendmail accepts a % hack > message it will relay it (as far as I know at least). Where as qmail > will accept the message but without the percenthack behaviour explicitly > turned on qmail will NOT relay the message out. > > --Mike > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
