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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:21:31PM -0400, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
| On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:36:38AM -0500,
| dman <dsh8290@???> is thought to have said:
| > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:57:28AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
| > | On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:45:32PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > | > The first step is to determine why you were blacklisted in the first
| > | > place. That may be tricky since dial-up ips tend to be used by many
| > | > users and the blacklist may have been caused by someone else. I tried
| > |
| > | And the reason that you should not use your ISP's smarthost is?
| >
| > Maybe he wants to learn how to be a mail admin? I don't know.
| > (I'm not going to argue over which he should do either)
| >
| > Still, you don't want his machine to be an open relay that feeds out
| > through his ISP's smarthost.
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| Who said that configuring his exim box to use his ISP's smarthost for
| outbound mail would make him an open relay? These do not have
| anything to do with each other.
You are right -- delivering directly and using a smarthost are not
related to the open relay problem. He's already identified that
somehow spammers are injecting messages into his mail system, and
changing the config to use the smarthost doesn't change that.
-D
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