It looks to me that many machines running qmail will die on test 6.
I tried my personal email server, one I do consulting for, the one at
abuse.net, and muncher.math.uic.edu. It looks like all of them fail at
Test 6.
However when I ran the test on vix's mailer, it passed all the tests.
The only reason it passes is that it checks the sender address BEFORE
attempting to deliver. I also ran the test on Sendmail.org's server.
It passes as well.
I have a question though, how valid is testing
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to see if the address
fails/rejected ?
The mail server would HAVE to process the % hack. Its NOT necessarily a
valid test on all servers. Its only appropriate to test this on servers
who HAVE the % hack enabled.
Comments ?
Matt Soffen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Bell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 4:01 PM
> To: Ben Kosse
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The word from Mail.com
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 12:44:22PM -0700, Ben Kosse wrote:
> # > > From: "Mail.com Abuse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # > > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:09:54 -0400
> # > > To: Justin Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # > > Subject: Re: blacklisted?
> # > >
> # > > Justin
> # > >
> # > > On Thu Jul 15, we received a high volume of traffic from
> # > 206.246.140.165
> # > > (iq-ss5.iquest.net). Specifically, we got 472 messages in
> # > an hour. If you
> # > > check
> # > http://maps.vix.com/tsi/new-rlytest.cgi?ADDR=iq-ss5.iquest.net you
> # > > will see that this machine is an open relay. We therefore
> # > blocked it. If
> # > > you secure this machine, we will be glad to unblock it.
> # >
> # > as can be seen here, no, they did not claim that that is why it
> was
> # > blacklisted, but that the host is an open relay.
> # >
> # > of course, their own mail servers do not get past test TWO
> themselves.
> #
> # I'd like to point out that they're saying, based solely on the
> failure of
> # test 7, they claim that iq-ss5.iquest.net is an open relay and thus
> needs
> # blocking.
>
> exactly! If that did not get across the first time, they are blocking
> my mail
> server because it fails test 7, of course, I have since added
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the badmailfrom which lets the machine
> pass all
> the tests....
>
> Justin
>
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