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Re: open relay



anu bhaskar spake thusly on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:40:59PM +0530:
> i am using a mail server with qmail, tcprules.
> if any one in the world telnets to 25 port of my mail server and uses 
> following commands my mail server sends mail.
> mail from: xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> rcpt to: anu@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> if its other way round like below example it will not allow to send mail 
> saying relaying not permitted
> mail from: xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> rcpt to: abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> is my mail server an open relay or not and if it is. how to prevent it?
> 
> thank you
> 
> -- 
> anu bhaskar
> 

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Do you have a /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file? If so, what's in it?

Regards,
Richard

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