On 7/25/02 8:25 AM, Peter Jones at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Question to all, apropos to the following message and the current thread on
> AOL MTAs:
> 
> In trying to figure out why AOL kills some messages from my users, I noted
> on their web pages that you can submit an IP address to AOL and they will
> test it to see if it is an open relay.
> 
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=8
> 
> Has anyone tried this? Is it a reliable open relay test, or is it hosed?
> Don't want to make things worse than they already are by submitting to a
> flawed "open relay" test.

I used to regularly see open relay tests from AOL in my logs although I
don't recall any recently. They all seemed to be being picked off and I'm
not aware of ever being bitbucketed by them so I guess they work OK.

-- Larry Stone
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://www.stonejongleux.com/
   


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