RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 Email relay works on IPs but not names?

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> > When your server looks up the IP you're connecting from it probably gets
> > pool-151-203-232-134.bos.east.verizon.net
> > Perhaps you can just put bos.east.verizon.net in your allowed field.
>
> But then couldn't anyone with a DSL line in Eastern Masschusetts use this
> 'open' mail relay for spam?
>

They could, but it's not an anonymous open relay so it would capture them in
the headers and get their account cancelled with Verizon on a complaint.
IANAL, but I think you could also bring an action against them in court
since they're local for computer crimes and trespass to chattel or theft of
services.

I figured that bos.east.verizon.net would probably be a fairly small number
of potential abusers as there are plenty of anonymous Sendmail 8.6 servers
running in the .jp and .cn spaces to abuse.

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Dan Kriwitsky