Re: Postfix is spammer-friendly by default on potato and woody

[Ethan Benson]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:09:10AM -0600, An Thi-Nguyen Le wrote:
> > set up myself that has a default potato debian install, with postfix 
> > (default as well).
> 
> Well I do run woody, but:
> 
> mme@feivel:~$ telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 feivel ESMTP Postfix
> HELO urh1000.uiuc.edu
> 250 feivel
> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 250 Ok
> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 250 Ok
> 
> I take it this is relaying isn't it? The only additions I have to
> /etc/postfix/main.cf are:

no, machines in your network are allowed to relay, if i were to
connect to your port 25 (which i won't) and try the same thing it
would refuse to accept it.

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Ethan Benson
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