Thanks Bill. I want to impliment a patch(http://www.qmail.org/qmail-smtpd-relay-reject).Can I patch this on existing instalation? Do i need to recompile everything?
Regards, Sreedhar On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 Bill Shupp wrote : >On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 05:38 AM, Sreedhar wrote: > >>Hi all, >>My qmail server seems to be relay controlled but it failed in >>some of the relay tests. >> >>I tested my server using >> >>http://www.paladincorp.com.au/unix/spam/spamlart/ >> >>My mail server always accepted mails from >><paladincorp.com.au!spamtest > >> >>How to control this?. Is there any patch available for this? >>Thanks in advance. > >As that website states, just because the tests fail does not mean >your server is vulnerable. Besides, if you are concerned about >the mail from address (rather than rcpt to), just add it to the >badmailfrom list. Qmail does not check the if the recipient >exists before accepting a message, just that the domain is in >rcpthosts. Check out Dan's page on spam for insight to his >perspective on spam control: > >http://cr.yp.to/qmail/antispam.html > >Bill >
