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Re: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay


From: John Brown <jmbrown () chagresventures com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:18:41 -0600


Yup, what he said.

yeah, all those lovely home based DSL/Cable/Wireless users with Linux/BSD 
qmail-smtp-auth setups thinking they are safe and can relay off of their 
nifty box at home / soho.

Weeeee

john



On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:53:38AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:45:44 -0800, "W.D. McKinney" <dee () akwireless net>  said:
Did you mean to post this on the qmail list per chance ?

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:34, John Brown wrote:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=105452174430616&w=2

Doubtful, he's *citing* a posting from an archive of the qmail list. ;)

It's a heads-up for your abuse desk, that the trojaned DSL/cablemodem customers
of yours that have been acting as spam relays are likely to start scanning for
open qmail servers to abuse....




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