This is incorrect.  ORBS only includes host which actually relay the mail,
not just accept it.  That is, it has to be *delivered* to the test RCPT TO:
address.

--Adam

On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:50:48PM -0400, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> According to the www.orbs.org battery of tests,
> the qmail smtp daemon "fails" in the case:
> 
>       MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>       RCPT TO:<victim%target@{relay}> 
> 
>       {relay} is tested as both [IP.address] and reverse.DNS.name. 
> 
>       Heavily exploited by spammers and mailbombers. 
>       Most Lotus Notes/Domino installations fail this. Recently fixed - see
> 
> [ See: http://www.orbs.org/envelopes.cgi for this reference.
>   Test out your qmail daemon using the http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html
>   engine.]
> 
> This being the case, how does one _prevent_ a mail server which
> is running qmail to be _not_ included in the orbs database?
> 
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