[GLLUG] Is my email server an open relay?

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Fri Jul 9 09:49:50 EDT 2004


Seth Bembeneck said:
> I'm running qmail on a Gentoo system.
>
> My ip is dynamic.

Seth,

That's your problem right there.  Dynamic IP addresses are blocked from
sending to a large number of domains, and sbc is one of them.  That's
better than it used to be.  For quite a while the Ameritech ISP would only
accept mail from a white list of servers.

Clay
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