On May 18, 20:39, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Relay test 3
>
> >>> RSET
> <<<
>
> Actually as near as I can tell, the reason test 3 is failing is because
VMS
> reacted to test 2 by breaking the connection. This seems to be verified
by
> my results from telneting in on port 25.
Looks like it, but it shouldn't do that. It should accept or reject the
<spamtest> address and then allow the RSET to reset the envelope. If
that's consistent behaviour, and you want to run the rest of the tests,
you'll need to find out what they are (or devise equivalents) and do each
by hand. Some of them have to be run from a non-local connection, so you
might need an accomplice.
http://www.sxlist.com/techref/inet/smtpsend.htm has a sample transcript if
you want to try individual tests by hand. BTW, there is one shortcoming of
the tests -- they check to see if the mail is rejected at the time of the
SMTP exchange; some people have argued that it's OK to accept the mail so
long as it's not delivered. Personally, I prefer not to have some spammer
wasting my resources and I prefer the mail to be rejected at the earliest
possible point.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sun May 19 2002 - 06:43:30 BST