On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Hyrum Wright wrote:
Now, to my untrained eye, it looks as if someone is trying to reply mail^H^H^H^Hspam through the icarus mailserver. I think that I've gotten everything locked down to prevent that, but just in case, are there any other precautions I can/should take?
Among other things, one thing you should do if you haven't already is to visit this site:
http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
Put in the hostname or IP address of your mail server, and it'll attempt to send email through your server in a number of tricksy spammish ways. If it succeeds in any of its tests it'll let you know you're running an "open relay", i.e. a safe haven for those evile spammish types.
~ ross
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