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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:54:20 -0700
From:      Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open Mail Relay
Message-ID:  <4C66F46C.2030308@radel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C66DAFC.8050807@gmail.com>
References:  <20100814172307.035661065697@hub.freebsd.org> <4C66DAFC.8050807@gmail.com>

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On 8/14/10 11:05 AM, Mikhail wrote:
>
> On 14.08.2010 17:29, peter@vfemail.net wrote:
>> I've reviewed my mail logs for the past couple of days and I can't
>> find any entries for any mail addressed to the complainer's domain
>> name except mail that should have been sent.
>
> You can try it yourself, with telnet and proper smtp commands. For
> example, telnet from outside of your organization to your mail server
> and issue:
>
> ehlo mydomain.com
> mail from: foobar@example.com
> rcpt to: foobar@example.org
> data
> test mail
> .
>
> You actually have to get error message about relay denied for you. If
> you don't - you're in trouble.
> If you do recieve such message - you relay is closed and probably you
> have spam worms who send emails from legit user, or something like that=
=2E

The basic test, but hardly sufficient to determine if all the known ways =

of fooling an smtp server are accounted for.  Recall from the OP's=20
description: "saying relaying was denied in 17 separate tests."

The above also can be an issue if you do the test from an IP address=20
that the SMTP server has been configured to treat as "trusted."

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com


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