Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP problems - HELP!

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Kris Dahl wrote:
> 
> on 6/27/00 3:44 PM, Theodore Jones at theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Kris,
> >
> > How can one figure out if SMTP is being used/abused on a system then?  What
> > are
> > the symptoms?
> 
> One of the first symptoms (and may be too late at that point) is that you
> start receiving angry emails from sysadmins that received SPAM coming from
> you machine.
 
I err, [embarrassed cough], had a mail server used as a spam relay once.
Amazingly I did not receive one complaint.

Anyway, for those who don't know about it, there's a simple test:
run "telnet mail-abuse.org" from the command line of every machine 
that can possibly be abused.  It's an automated test of your relaying
vulnerability.