[Sussex] Securing Mail Servers

paul.morriss at tokenbay.co.uk paul.morriss at tokenbay.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 10:31:35 UTC 2006


I ran the test and they all came back clear... <breathing sigh of relief> :)

Paul

> On Thu, April 20, 2006 10:37, Jon Fautley said:
>> Please, please, please be careful, and TEST your mailserver before you
>> release it to the wild. If you've got an open relay, apart from annoying
>> a large percentage of the Internet population, you're a) likely to make
>> your company look bad if they start sending spam, b) get your server
>> blacklisted from most of the world, and c) you're likely to get your
>> internet connection terminated, or at least shut down with little/no
>> notice.
>
> For a moment, I thought you meant me having an open relay. The page you
> are after is here:
>
> http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
>
> You enter the IP address or name of the machine and it will perform 17
> relay tests on it to make sure its secure.
>
> --
> John
>
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