On Tue, 26 May 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> How do you know it does nothing? Have you received any messages from
> sites that are in the RBL list? If no site that is blocked has tried to
> send mail to you, then indeed you will observe nothing.
>
> New in Exim 1.90 is the -bh option, which allows you to run a testing
> SMTP session as if from a given address. This makes it easier to test
> this kind of thing. Of course, you need to know a blocked IP address
> with which to test.
You may find the following useful in testing whether the RBL is
working as expected.
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>From nelson@??? Tue May 26 01:08:56 1998
Date: 25 May 1998 11:31:21 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@???>
To: nelson@???
Subject: Re: The RBL Patches.
[ This is going to several mailing lists, none of which appear in the
To: line so that we don't get any cross-posted discussion of this. -russ ]
I've written a program to test an SMTP server's RBL block. To
exercise this program, send mail to nelson@??? from the
server whose RBL block you are testing. The robot that receives that
email will attempt to send a piece of test email to the postmaster.
It connects from linux.crynwr.com (192.203.178.39), which the MAPS
folks have kindly added to the RBL. If your RBL block didn't work,
postmaster get a message to that effect. Regardless of whether the
RBL block succeeds or not it emails you the results of the SMTP
conversation (from ns.crynwr.com, which is not on the RBl), so you can
see how your server looks from the view of someone on the RBL.
This is for use by anyone who wants to test their RBL block. Feel
free to advertise it.
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