[Gllug] open relays

Tushar Joshi tjoshi at lonix.org.uk
Fri Apr 26 12:40:39 UTC 2002



But isn't AOL themselves just one big open relay ? :)

Tushar

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:44:20AM +0100, will wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We have a customer whos server can't send to AOL because AOL have tested 
> their server and found to be an open relay.  Poprelayd was installed 
> last November and it seems to be working, you can only send through the 
> server after popping a pop account.  However you do seem to be able to 
> send if you format the destination email address:
> 
> rcpt to: CloseYourOpenRelay%aol.com@<hostname or IP of server>
> 
> this gets accepted for delivery and the maillogs show that it the mailer 
> does attempt to deliver to AOL.  It is strange because it only seems to 
> work for aol.com, doing:
> 
> rcpt to: CloseYourOpenRelay%<some other hostname>@<hostname or IP of server>
> 
> gives a relaying denied message.  Does anyone have any idea as to why 
> this is happening and what can be done to fix it?  They are running 
> sendmail 8.11.6
> 
> Will.
> 
> 
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