Are your tcprules set up correctly to deny open relaying to everyone except your
internal users? Is your /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts set up correctly?
If not, then you may be acting as an open relay.
-c
At 3:36 PM +1100 10/20/00, Kevin Waterson wrote:
>Recently, after running qmail for 3 years on our
>primary mail server, we found ourselves listed on orbs.
>It seems we were acting as an open relay and that
>many mailers were simply bouncing mail from our
>domain.
>
>I made a check of the server and all was well but
>when I checked it from the facility at
>abuse.net I found it was reporting an open relay.
>
>The problem it seems stems from qmails handling of
>one of the tests has qmail accepting the mail and
>dealing with it internally, so that probably ever
>qmail server will eventually end up listed on orbs,
>with an incorrectly assumed open relay.
>
>But we needed action quickly as users were complaining
>so we had to switch our primary server to sendmail, to
>avoid any confusion.
>
>Now, if Orbs are incorrectly listing services perhaps
>we here need to follow up with our legal people.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Kevin Waterson
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