[Sussex] Securing Mail Servers

[John Crowhurst]

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