Re: [Exim] Spam test, open relay whatever it was

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Author: Sean Rima
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Spam test, open relay whatever it was
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Tabor J. Wells verbalised:

>> I run exisumm every night and noticed this entry:
>>
>>     1 relaytest%rr.njabl.org@???: unknown local-part
>>           "relaytest%rr.njabl.org" in domain "tcob1.net"

>>
>> I then checked the log and noticed that Exim sent a bounce message
>> back, I can only guess it was for unknown user. If there anyway to
>> tell exim to notice this as a relay attempt and not as an unknown
>> user.
>
> Well fundamentally it is an "unknown user" since that local part isn't
> valid in your domain.
>
> If you turn on receiver_verify you can stop these at the SMTP session
> level, rather than accept it and then generate an error message later.
>


Thanks for that advice, I have put that in.

Sean
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