securing relay...

[Dhawal Doshy]

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Leif Neland wrote:
> Dhawal Doshy wrote:
> 
>>
>> Check the results of 'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org' from a shell
>> on your mail server..
>>
> It should be 'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org 25'
> 
> Leif
>  
> 

No.. it is 'telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org' without the 25, using 25 
will open a SMTP session with the MTA on their server.

[root at skynet im]# telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org 25
Trying 168.61.4.13...
Connected to relay-test.mail-abuse.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 cygnus.mail-abuse.org ESMTP Postfix
quit
221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

- dhawal

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