] Blocking mail relayers
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mike Ballon wrote:
Sendmail does NOT need to be restarted when updating the access file, it
does need to be built of course 'make access.db' but that's it.
I'd like to see a snip of the maillog to see if he was actually being
allowed to relay
On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:12 am, Erich S. wrote:
-- Is it very complicated to set up IMAP to operate in a secure fashion?
IE. be able to use Outlook Express from my work assigned laptop and have
access to my mail folders remotely? (I an old skool PINEr myself when
logged locally or
Hiya,
Thanks for the response guys!
I think I found the abuse.net test site earlier, and it passed all the
tests, but I was wondering if somehow this bozo was getting through.
What's really irritating was that it was coming from that IP every 20
minutes.
I added the IP to hosts.deny and
Are you sure they are trying to relay or bounce mail from your server?
Based on your commentsbelow about messages to: people and the passing of the
relay tests it
appears this might be anattempt to flood your mailserver with pseudo-random
names trying to
actually find validusers to send spam
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mike Ballon wrote:
Sendmail does NOT need to be restarted when updating the access file, it
does need to be built of course 'make access.db' but that's it.
I'd like to see a snip of the maillog to see if he was actually being
allowed to relay though.
Hmmm I didn't do
I use this test all the time:
http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
- Original Message -
From: Erich S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: [luau] Blocking mail relayers
Hiya,
Still getting used to my new RH 7.3 setup, and was
You can either
add him to hosts.deny,
or add
his.ip.here.reject
to your access file in /etc/mail you can do custom reject messages too. If
its an ISP you know you wont get alot of traffic from just block the whole
ip-block.
Best way to kill attempted relaying so is to use Cyrus
