Re: [Exim] I )(*#$ hate aol

--On Thursday, December 04, 2003 19:07:38 -0700 Kevin Reed <listaccount@???> wrote:

> Jonathan Vanasco said:
>>
>> AOL has somehow got my office's ip listed as an open relay/open proxy
>> or something. Odd, because its most certainly not.
>
> Hard to express an opinion since you provided no info to check. Many
> people have an open relay and don't realize it as there are several
> different ways this can happen, not all of them are known by all.

Absolutely true. One good check is to log into the mail server and
then telnet to open-relay.mail-abuse.org. It will try various open
relay tests to the machine you are telnetting from; and log the
results back to your telnet session; then close the session.



-Pat