Whoa Noel - he was (is?) running an open relay - no debate there !! I just chimed in, Noel, to bring up a rather important point with the way James processes mail. Didn't you write about this awhile back Noel, how James accpets all and then applies validation ??
In describing this process to my ISP test lizard, he freaked which made it clear to me that althouigh it may be a better model, it operates differently .... > > It might be worth mentioning again that James appears to > > be an open rely server as it accepts everything and then > > validates .... > > ORDB and ALL other relay checkers that I'm familiar with > understand this, Alan. My own server has been checked by > dozens of open relay checkers. Every open relay scanner > registered with OpenRBL understands that mail servers may > accept e-mail, and reject it later. They wait until they > actually receive the e-mail before flagging a server as an > open relay. The problem is not that ORDB assumed that he > is an open relay; the problem is that ORDB VERIFIED it, as > did I. Yes, Noel, it's open !! not debate there !! _______________________ thanks, alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
