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On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails |
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> that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of |
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> stuff I don't recognize. |
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> I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, |
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> to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point |
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> me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, |
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> if I know the appropriate FM to R. |
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You can check if your machine is an open relay by using telnet to |
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relay-test.mail-abuse.org from the machine which runs the mail. |
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An other alternative is to use their webinterface |
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(http://www.abuse.net/relay.html) but I have no experience with that one. |
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Gerhard |
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