>Well Len thanks for calling me lazy and incompetent. Until I got >blacklisted I did not know about open relays. So how does that put me in >either category?
If you run a public mail server, don't know what open relays are, nor how to close your own, that's incompetence. >The mail server I was running had no documentation about >the possible abuse of or even the existence of open relays. then change mail servers. there's lotsa of good ones around, commercial and free. >I can guarantee you that had I received a warning, it would certainly >would have "energized" me to deal with the situation. So would have coming in the office one morning to find your mail server hijacked and the transit point for 30K abuse mails/hour all night, and 600K mail queued up to go, disk full. >Please watch those blanket statements in the future...because I am far from >lazy or incompetent...you weenie ;-) As with MS and their repeated security screw ups, the grace period for open relays is over, long ago. That said, if you pay to pay MAPS and DL their RBL reverse zone, it's 10+ mb of open relays, IIRC. (Don't put your mailbox server on internet as MX host, either.) Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
