Re: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Brad Jensen wrote:

> meanwhile they have caused far more damage to the internet than
> any saving they could hope to make. basically you have to
> reconfigure your smtp server to refuse connections except from
> inside your local net and a few selected ips. If you can't dial
> in and get your mail on the road, this is why.

An open relay is an email server that will forward mail from any address
to any address.  What you describe above is not an open relay.  A non-open
(closed?) relay will accept incoming mail from any address (assuming no
other restrictions) that is destined for the domain that the server
serves.  It will not accept incoming mail for domains not under its
jurisdiction.  If what you said above were true we couldn't send mail to
each other.

Man I hope I got that right :)

James Rich
james@eaerich.com