>Luckily for him, smtp.ucla.edu is an open relay. I have confirmed this >myself by sending an email through it. However, because they are a >special type of open relay, they don't get blacklisted. They do a >standard relay for "mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" with one exception: they do >a check to see that [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually exists. I submitted >smtp.ucla.edu to one of the open relay databases (I don't remember which >one), but it came back negative. It seems the only @ucla.edu address it >tested was [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something like that), which obviously >isn't a real email address.
A decent open relay tester would try "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". That's guaranteed to be a valid E-mail address (unless the system is FUBAR, in which case they get listed at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org ). >What do you guys think of this type of SMTP setup? In general, it's very bad. Unless they have valid methods of spam control, such as rate limiting, that would prevent spammers from sending their bulk mail through the server. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
