At Wed Sep  3 17:11:07 2003, Robert Hinrichs wrote:
> 
> I am totally confused about osirusoft.
> 1) I read that they have shut down due to DOS attacks.  It appears there 
> is no way to contact them.

Apparently so.

> 2) Our spamassassin is labeling as spam, messages that are by no means 
> spam.  The main reason is that the servers are reportedly listed as open 
> relays with osirusoft.  However these servers are definitely not open 
> relays, and this has been confirmed.

Osirusoft is listing the entire internet address space as open relays.
Presumably this is so that administrators will remove the osirusoft
checks in their mail configurations. 

> 3) Why is Osirusoft, which is supposedly down, making false reports that 
> servers are open relays?  Why is this happening even though there is no 
> way to contact them?  I am especially concerned because a couple of the 
> servers listed as "open relay" by osirusoft are ours!

Every mail server on the internet is now listed as an open relay.

> 4) I am new to spamassassin.  What parameter should I use in my 
> configuration to cause spamassassin to stop using osirusoft open relay?

See the news article at http://news.spamassassin.org/

Martin
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