Forgive me for opening this can of worms again, but I have something that
proves that the MAPS RSS *is* listing servers that it suspects are open
relays, even when they aren't.
My home ISP's outbound server was listed on Friday: texas.kingwoodcable.com,
or 208.223.8.79. According to the web page that shows the relay test
(http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rsstest?208.223.8.79), "This host
accepted our relay test message, but does not appear to have returned it."
The page goes on to say, "It may never return the relay test message, which
means it is probably not open to relay." Despite these statements, the
server made the RSS list.
Those more familiar with qmail can examine the bottom of that page and
determine if the test that "failed" would affect qmail.
Interestingly, the RSS site states that they tried to warn Kingwood Cable
about being listed, but that the warning was rejected. This is because they
tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], which doesn't exist. I know that
'postmaster' is supposed to exist for every domain, but still, how hard is
it to set up something that also sends the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], since that's the domain this server is in
charge of?
Oh well, now back to your regularly scheduled flamefest.
---Kris Kelley
