Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: Exim Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [exim] Re: Thoughts on Open Relays
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:10:07 -0800, Marc Perkel <marc@???> wrote: >
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> Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:49:39 +0100, Michelle
> Konzack <linux4michelle@???> wrote:
> Hello Marc,
Am 2005-02-20 22:29:42, schrieb Marc Perkel:
> Well - I'm in the process of blocking open relay tests so that they can't > detect that I'm open. How do you want to do that ?
I think a better > question would be 'why do you want to do that?'.
Mostly just as a public > service. I know people who travel and every now and then they can't send
> mail because the server they expect to connect to is down and they need to
> connect to something just to get sme email out. It ised to be back in the
> good ole day that you could connect to any smtp server to send email. That
> was before spam. But - I'm at the point with my spam filter where I can
> block 100% of spam that would be sent through an unprotected open relay and
> eliminate the problem that eliminated open relays in the first place.
So.. are you in a position to take legal responsibility for this email
you're relaying? Can you trace the originator when whatever regulatory
authority you fall under comes calling?
I've an idea, why don't you float your suggestion over on SPAM-L? They
will probably have some suggestions for you there.
