[Luca Olivetti]: > > Ed Anuff wrote: > > > SPAM: RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG (0.6 points) RBL: Received via a relay in >relays.ordb.org > > SPAM: [RBL check: found 5.226.180.66.relays.ordb.org.] > > $ telnet 66.180.226.5 smtp > Trying 66.180.226.5... > Connected to 66.180.226.5 (66.180.226.5). > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 ns1.protagonist.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.0/8.8.7; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 > 22:50:21 -0800 > mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 250 2.1.0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender ok > rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 551 5.7.1 we do not relay > > Confirmed once more: black lists are unreliable, useless against > spam and harmful to legitimate email.
don't be naive. my own email server was listed in ORDB since it allowed <user%domain@mydomain@> as a valid address for relaying to user@domain. (my server did reject the case without the trailing @ properly.) sure, it was annoying to have my server listed for twelve hours, but I'm thankful that I was alerted to this error before my host had been used as a massive spam relay. ORDB performs _many_ tests like this. I resubmitted the host yesterday, and it is still wide open. http://www.ordb.org/lookup/?host=66.180.226.5 Kjetil T. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
