Re: [exim] Thoughts on Open Relays

If you go that route, make sure you won't be getting any mail from AOL
or MS customers -- both have policies to disable all mail from open
relays, and they do periodic checks.

I found out when an apache proxypass linking our webserver to our
office firewall had a typo in it that made it semi-open. Broke all
mail for AOL for 3 days until i got all the bureaucratic stuff taken
care of.

On Feb 21, 2005, at 12:46 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:

> So - the reason open relays are bad is because spammers can use then
> to send spam. But - if I have a really good spam filter that would
> block spam sent through open relays - then having an open relay
> wouldn't be a problem.
>
> My spam filter is good enough that I'm thinking about going open relay.