[59634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Brown)
Tue Jul 15 22:19:59 2003
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:18:41 -0600
From: John Brown <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "W.D. McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200307150553.h6F5rcMQ005762@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:53:38AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Yup, what he said.
yeah, all those lovely home based DSL/Cable/Wireless users with Linux/BSD
qmail-smtp-auth setups thinking they are safe and can relay off of their
nifty box at home / soho.
Weeeee
john
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:53:38AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:45:44 -0800, "W.D. McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net> said:
> > Did you mean to post this on the qmail list per chance ?
>
> > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:34, John Brown wrote:
>
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=105452174430616&w=2
>
> Doubtful, he's *citing* a posting from an archive of the qmail list. ;)
>
> It's a heads-up for your abuse desk, that the trojaned DSL/cablemodem customers
> of yours that have been acting as spam relays are likely to start scanning for
> open qmail servers to abuse....
>
