oh, and you can also go here: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
To test your relay status. On 7/23/05, Sam Folk-Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm assuming then > that the ones I don't recognize have been using my server as a relay. Is > this a correct assumption? > > Lisa -- sometimes relay attempts show up on that list in logwatch. For > example, depending on how your server is configured, it could "appear" > to accept messages for relay and then dump them after they fail SMTP > authentication. I have found that sometimes a few unknown domains do > show up in the logwatch files. Generally, i wouldn't worry about it > unless you see like hundreds of messages on that list. As a general > rule of thumb, the test you performed with mail-abuse.org will > correctly report the relay status of your server. > > > > On 7/23/05, Lisa C Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Porter wrote: > > > telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org > > > > When I did this it ended with "System appeared to reject relay > > attempts". So, guess I don't! > > > > Jeff G wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that the rogers.com address must be a > > > spammer trying to send me spam and probably failing. > > > > I've been trying to research LogWatch and what exactly it's telling me > > so I was confused. The title of that part of the report says "Top > > relays" and then numbers like 44/44 - I was guessing that it meant > > that's how many messages or times it successfully relayed. > > > > Does anyone have any sites or docs that explain for newbies what you see > > in the logs? > > > > Lisa B. > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > -- > Sam Folk-Williams > RHCT, Linux+ > http://predisposition.com/stuff > -- Sam Folk-Williams RHCT, Linux+ http://predisposition.com/stuff -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
