Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aol postmaster Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10209252059320.7796-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <OF93FF15F9.E9FFE180-ON86256C3F.006069B5@kka.com>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com wrote: > Has anyone ever been able to work through the trenches of AOL and actually > speak to anyone in their spam/email abuse department? I keep getting > notices from AOL that they are auto-testing my mail server, that it is an > open relay, and that they will blacklist my ip until it is fixed. > > Needless to say, the server is not an open relay and I can manually mimic > the same smtp session their auto-tester is reporting that it uses as the > test, and the result is very clear: Relaying Not Allowed. Why their > testing script doesn't see this is beyond me. ... If you the server you are talking about is mail.k2access.net, it most definitely is an open relay. I just relayed a piece of e-mail through it. mail.k2access.net will relay anything with a @k2access.net sender address, regardless of where it comes from. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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