Testing for Open Relays?

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Sat May 18 09:37:05 2002

Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:
>Anyone have any favorite sites or tools to test an SMTP server for open
>relays? I finally got around to updating the SMTP configuration on my VMS
>server to reflect the upgrade from TCPIP 5.0 to 5.1 and would like to test
>it.

Well, having never run an open-relaying SMTP server, I'm not well versed,
but the qmail documentation at http://www.qmail.org/top.html does give
instructions on how to initiate an SMTP conversation from the telnet prompt...

I knowz it ain't much, but I HTH...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Sat May 18 2002 - 09:37:05 BST

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