On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails > that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of > stuff I don't recognize. > > I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, > to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point > me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, > if I know the appropriate FM to R. >
You can check if your machine is an open relay by using telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org from the machine which runs the mail. An other alternative is to use their webinterface (http://www.abuse.net/relay.html) but I have no experience with that one. Gerhard -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
