From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 25 22: 9: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8763037B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD56943E75 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 17uPsy-0004iP-00; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:04:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aol postmaster In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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