On 8/9/02 11:19 AM, NetHead at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried www.abuse.net/relay.html, but was unable to use it. I kept
> getting an "unable to access database" error. So, I tried telnetting to
> "relay-test.mail-abuse.org" as you suggested. Whoa! What a rush! I
> reviewed the log and the first run says that "System appeared to accept 1
> relay attempts." (well, actually, it was the second run... the first run
> I failed to "capture text" of the session.) Then I did a third run (still
> tweaking my text capture... I'm soooo novice with telnet!) This time it
> said "System appeared to reject relay attempts". I didn't change
> anything! Any ideas how that happened?
"Appeared" would seem to be the operative word.
Here's the test when that "appeared" to be accepted:
:Relay test: #Test 9
>>> mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sender accepted
>>> rcpt to: <nobody%mail-abuse.org@[65.186.7.197]>
<<< 250 <nobody%mail-abuse.org@[65.186.7.197]> will be relayed to a client.
SIMS says it will accept it. But when you look at the SIMS logs, you find
that it really went nowhere since it appears SIMS just flat out doesn't know
what to do with an address with % in it (an addressing scheme that in the
old days was called "poor-man's routing" and was used to force a relay from
one system through a system that connected to another system back when there
was not one all encompassing Internet). I don't believe most of the
respectable blacklists consider a relay attempt as successful unless the
mail actually makes it - appearing to accept it doesn't count.
> Also, there was a recurring statement in several of the tests:
>
> <<< 591 [204.152.187.123] No mail will be accepted. Your host is in
> a Black List
> . The host supplies invalid Return-Path too often
>>>>
Sounds like it made SIMS's temp-ban list.
-- Larry Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.stonejongleux.com/
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