On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:32:20AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
| On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:29:26PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
| > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 15:47, christophe barbé wrote:
| > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
| > > > I am considering opening port 25 and have already testing for
| > > > relaying by telneting to relay-test.mail-abuse.org and it
| > > > tells me that the
| > > > config is good.
That's a good start, at least. It is still _possible_ that you have
some sort of relaying allowed. I say this because you _can_ specify
certain hosts (or other specific criteria) that are allowed to relay,
and if you do that incorrectly you could become a relay for some
people. However, unless you're doing something particularly odd the
mail-abuse test is probably thorough enough.
| > From the machine to be tested
| >
| > % telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org
|
| That's all, do you specify a port or type a command ?
|
| When I try I see only :
|
| telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org
| Trying 204.152.187.123...
| Connected to cygnus.mail-abuse.org.
| Escape character is '^]'.
Do you have an MTA listening on port 25 of 204.152.187.123? Hmm, yes
you do. Does it (and the routers leading up to it allow connections
from the mail-abuse host (204.152.187.123)? It connects back to the
host you telneted in from. I just tried it on my machine, kinda neat.
HTH,
-D
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