[Gllug] PLEASE- RESPOND

Alex alx at satta.co.uk
Mon Nov 17 06:47:35 UTC 2003


That'll be BT themselves. Their helpdesk people must have gotten sick of 
taking calls about SMTP blacklists.


Alex
(ex-helpdesk person [not BT!])



>         Why does that not supprise me, We have a Mail server here, (a
>closed relay) but if you look at the relay block log (We're using EXIM
>rejectlog)  somone tests the relay block about every 6 hours!!!! This is
>on an Fixed IP BT ADSL connection.
>         Basically unless you have a very good reason for running SMTP and
>know that its safe (ie relay blocked except to your own users) Keep port
>25 firmly closed. Until somone comes up with a better protocol than SMTP.
>
>Peter Childs
>
>
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