[104714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Alston)
Sat May 24 03:24:09 2008
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 09:24:02 +0200
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
In-Reply-To: <9C67F9CD-1584-4200-AB01-BEE146B8592B@blighty.com>
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On 24/05/2008 02:42 Steve Atkins wrote:
> If you're seeing something more egregious than just deluges of spam
> then ec2-abuse@amazon.com would likely be the right people
> to talk to.
>
> They've been contacted about it and, AIUI, state that the spam being sent
> from there is not something they're going to take action on.
You should not accept SMTP from the Amazon EC2 cloud at all. Amazon
don't intend for anyone to use it as an email platform and tell their
clients to use an external relay.
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Colin Alston ~ http://syllogism.co.za/
"To the world you may be one person, to one person you may be the
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