On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:36:23PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> Recently, after running qmail for 3 years on our
> primary mail server, we found ourselves listed on orbs.
> It seems we were acting as an open relay and that
> many mailers were simply bouncing mail from our
> domain.
>
> I made a check of the server and all was well but
> when I checked it from the facility at
> abuse.net I found it was reporting an open relay.
>
> The problem it seems stems from qmails handling of
> one of the tests has qmail accepting the mail and
> dealing with it internally, so that probably ever
> qmail server will eventually end up listed on orbs,
> with an incorrectly assumed open relay.
No. This is NOT the reason you were listed. Hosts are added to ORBS only
AFTER the relay test is received back by the tester.
--Adam
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