Been blacklisted >_< Was: Re:Is this spam coming from inside my network?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 13 20:31:50 UTC 2006


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Madison Kelly wrote:

> > Try this:
> >
> >         telnet ipaddr smtp
> >         ehlo somedomain.com
            ^^^^

Also, this should read 'helo'.

behdad


> >         mail from:<some address>
> >         rcpt to:<some other address>
> >         data
> >         Subject: some subject
> >         From: some address
> >         To: some other address
> >
> >         test
> >         .
> >         quit
> >
> > You can fiddle with somedomain.com, some address and some other address.  A
> > really good open relay doesn't even care if the mail from/ehlo commands are
> > even for a local domain.  As well, the mail from/rcpt to addresses don't have
> > to match the ones in the data.
> >
> > I tried to do this for you but I get this:
> >
> >     matt at brando:~$ telnet mail.tlu-bu.org smtp
> >     telnet: could not resolve mail.tlu-bu.org/smtp: Name or service not known
> >
> > HTH,
>
> Damn, typo...
>
> 'mail.tle-bu.org' (not 'tlu-bu')...
>
> I'll have to try that tonight because I am at the office which is
> allowed to relay mail. Thanks for the reply!
>
> Madison
>
>

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