i am an idiot as well. someone found my open relay on rr, bounced prOn off my server and caused rr to send nasty letter to my wife (cable bill in her name). i have never emailed prOn yet was responsible because of open relay.
woops. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ken Mink > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] Why the big boys block mail from dynamic IPs > > > It's because of idiots like me. > > A few weeks ago, I decided to use my server at home to host > my own smtp > server. I was tired of mail spending hours and sometimes days going > between RR's mail servers. I went with Postfix and spent a fair amount > of time testing my configuration. I tested my server from a number of > the open relay test sites and it passed all of them. > > This morning, I noticed that a message I had sent to another list had > not shown up. I logged in and did 'postqueue -p'. The screen just kept > scrolling and scrolling. There were 64k messages in my > incoming queue. I > was baffled. Well, it turns out I had made a small config > mistake and I > was open to relaying from .nc.rr.com. Some spam bot inside > nc.rr.com had > found me and was pumping mail through. > > I have fixed my mistake, but have also thrown up the shields(iptables) > while I rethink the mail server idea. > > You can't test enough. > > Ken > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
