Re: ORBS ?

• To: (Nick Hilliard)
• From: "Kurt Jaeger" < >
• Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:43:07 +0200 (CEST)
• Cc: Xander.Jansen@localhost (Xander Jansen),

Hi!

> > So it appears to me that the Dorkslayers just 'scan/test' whole networks 
> > and just blindly put all machines not complying to the 'Thou shall not 
> > relay rule' on the blacklist. I'm not sure that I like this way of 
> > promoting the closure of open relays...

> Indeed.  Some of our mail servers were put into this list for the sin of
> having customers with open relays who sent their outgoing mail through our
> servers.

But this is the correct way. Even if a host is not MX for
any domain, it should not relay.

As far as Dorkslayers: They did not put any fallback MX hosts of ours
on their list. So I don't understand that problem. Can you explain
this to me ?

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