At 06:55 PM 8/15/00, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
>Quoting Tim Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Well, I've successfully installed and configured QMail
> on my homebrewed
> > Linux server. As such, the rampant SPAM relay that my
> system allowed
> > over the past month has been stopped.
>
>Fascinating. qmail is relay-proof by default, so you
>almost have to
>purposefully mess up, unless doing something really dumb
>like
>allowing percent hack or something, to allow it to
>relay. Then,
>having messed up and knew it, you let it be a "rampant
>spam relay" for
>a month? I hope I'm not reading that correctly--perhaps
>it was rampant
>for a month and you just happened to not notice and only
>did *today*.
>
>Excuse me, but administrators of spam relays get me worked
>up.
>Especially qmail relays! Ugh.
I think that you're reading him incorrectly. I believe
that he meant to say that he had been using some other mail
package, and the relaying was happening. He has now
switched to qmail and the relaying has, of course, stopped.
Todd
