little off topic: Am I an open relay?

[Steve Campbell]

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Jason,

I had a similar situation just last week. It had to do with some kind of setup
on a user's Thunderbird. A friend of this user told him how to set up
Thunderbird to act as a relay for a different domain than ours, and for some
reason, because it was being done from our IPs, sendmail would go merrily along
and send it, even though it wasn't supposed to. I never did find out what the
user had done to make this happen, and he wasn't savvy enough to be able to tell
me. My only option I could think of before I found out what was happening, was
to block the domain in MS, and the user finally called and complained.


Quoting Jason Williams <jwilliams at COURTESYMORTGAGE.COM>:

> I think I figured it out.
> This should be interesting. I think one of my users here put something 
> on their computer and it was sending mail out.
> *SIGH*
> 
> 
> 

I don't use Thunderbird yet, so if you find out what and how, I would like to
know how your user did it.

Thanks 

Steve Campbell



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