Hi all .. how could one test to see if an open relay exists on a
specific email server?
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D wrote: Hi all .. how could one test to see if an open relay exists on a
specific email server?
I bet spammers would love someone to answer that question for them. You
wouldn't be planning spam, by any chance?
regards
Steve
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Nope, quite the contrary..I'm looking to write a simple program for a
client of mine that will, among other things, verify that their
clients' email servers do not have open relays.
D wrote: Nope, quite the contrary..I'm looking to write a simple program for a
client of mine that will, among other things, verify that their
clients' email servers do not have open relays.
I usually test it like this:
martin@proxy:~> telnet mail.huygenslyc eum.nl smtp
Trying 172.16.64.12...
Connected to mail.huygenslyc eum.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.huygenslyc eum.nl ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Fri, 17 Feb
2006 10:03:46 +0100 (CET)
~> helo 172.16.64.1
250 mail.huygenslyc eum.nl Hello [172.16.64.1], pleased to meet you
~> mail from: mh******@xs4all .nl
250 2.1.0 mh******@xs4all .nl... Sender ok
~> rcpt to: ma************@ gmail.com
550 5.7.1 ma************@ gmail.com... Relaying denied. IP name lookup
failed [172.16.64.1]
To get a more verbose explanation, google for smtp + telnet.
hth
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:40:51 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: D wrote: Hi all .. how could one test to see if an open relay exists on a
specific email server?
I bet spammers would love someone to answer that question for them. You
wouldn't be planning spam, by any chance?
The spammers already know how to look for open relays. Unlike the original
poster, they know how to use Google. *wink*
Besides, not just spammers want to detect open relays. Many people like to
block mail from open relays.
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Steven.
"D" <du********@hot mail.com> writes: Hi all .. how could one test to see if an open relay exists on a
specific email server?
Use the Distributed Sender Blackhole List service:
<URL:http://dsbl.org/>
They have client programs to make it easy to use the service to test
mail systems for vulnerabilities :
<URL:http://dsbl.org/programs>
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Thanks guys for the info..the DSBL client app is exactly what I
need..unfortuna tely the app I'm writing will be for Windows (the only
client I saw was for Linux). Do you know if there's a Windows command
line port?
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:31, D wrote: Hi all .. how could one test to see if an open relay exists on a
specific email server?
My simple favorite... run:
telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org
from the mail server in question (and be patient).
Kindly
Christoph
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Thanks, Christoph..in order to automate this in a program (so the test
can be initiated from a system other than the mail server), I'm
thinking it could be automated (via pstools) to run on the system in
question. I'll give it a try!
Cheers,
Doug
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