RE: Open Relay issue

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Author: Bill Wesson
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: RE: Open Relay issue
Note:    Westerneng.com is a domain on our server.
     is a non-existent user.
Part of the message is as follows:


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    **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
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The original message was received at Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:25:03 -0700 from
[65.182.130.29]

----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to
payson.visionengravers.com:
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1577

<<< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve
<>... Deferred: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address
does not resolve
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until
message is 5 days old

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Here is the text from maillog. The one that has me concerned is to
.

Aug 9 22:53:30 payson sendmail[22510]: i75547IJ006693:
to=<>, delay=5+00:48:43, xdelay=00:00:22, mailer=esmtp,
pri=10652601, relay=mail.senderservices.info. [65.59.208.76], dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: 421 SMTP service not available, closing transmission channel
Aug 9 22:53:31 payson sendmail[22510]: i75547IJ006693: i7A5qnhx022510:
return to sender: Cannot send message for 5 days
Aug 9 22:53:31 payson sendmail[22510]: i7A5qnhx022510: to=root,
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=34654, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

Thanks,
--Bill

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Bill Wesson wrote:

> I have a message from Postmaster Notify on my Sendmail server that I'm not
> quite sure about. It appears someone has successfully relayed. We have

SMTP
> authorization set, so a password may have been guessed. Would anyone be

able
> to take a look at the message to see if my guess is correct? I can forward
> the message to you off list.


Post to this list the few lines from your mail logs that correspond with
this related message.

> Also, are there any good automatic relay-block testers not affiliated with

a
> RBL that can deliver accurate information?


Have a look at the relay checker tools linked from
http://spamlinks.openrbl.org/tools-relay.htm


Jeremy C. Reed

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