On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 14:40, David Krider wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:52, del wrote:
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 20:18, David Krider wrote:
So, it *is* an open relay, as in "open to the creeps on your broadband subnet," but it may depend on just how open you need "open" to be defined before you call it "open," as in "open to all the creeps in the entire world."
Only if it sends on mail to 3rd parties. If you tried to use my mail server here to send mail to hotmail you'll not be allowed. Just because it's listening on port 25 doesn't make it an open relay.
I'm sort of tired of trying to explain myself to people who just aren't getting it, but I can't help not dispelling the misunderstanding for those who are lurking in this thread.
Yes, I am saying _exactly_ that this problem leaves you open to relay mail to 3rd parties.
I don't really care about "works for me" or "doesn't work for me" statements unless someone is going to _at least_ give a full description of their setup.
Took a closer look earlier. Put USB ADSL onto mailserver, connected. The netmask I get from my ISP is a /32 although I'm in a /15 netblock. So no I don't relay for all in the netblock. Is your ISP giving you more than a /32 on your connection? If it is then I can see where you're coming from and I'm sorry if you got wound up about this. -- del suse-linux-e