Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Erwin van Kroonenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've just setup a new Qmail-1.03 server running tcpserver and the
>> SPAMCONTROL patch I received from Erwin Hoffmann. When I test my
>> mailserver at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html it still failes at Relay
>> test 6... so it seems the patch is not working. What could be wrong?
> Aaarrrggghhh!
I think we should propose to the maintainer of that tester that to the end
of the text already there:
Anonymous mode sends commands to the server to be tested but doesn't
actually send any mail. This can report false positives, hosts that
appear to be open relays but actually aren't because they reject or
discard a message after appearing to accept it.
that he add, in bright red:
Do not use the anonymous mode of this tester to test qmail hosts! The
normal qmail configuration will appear to accept the mail, which means
that the tester will report false positives. It will specifically
tell you that the positive may be a false positive, but you won't read
it, and will therefore waste time thinking that the host is a relay
when it isn't. Please use the registered user mode instead.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
