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Open Relay Checker
Downloads From the developer: "This testing tool allows users to scan and check their open relay servers. Site Features include : Open Relay Database, Open Relay Usage Articles, FAQs %26 How-tos, Closing Relays and Protecting your Mail Server, Anti Spam Tips...
[August 12, 2002, 17:23]
Network administrators told to secure servers
News An open relay is a mail server configured so that anyone can use it as a relay point for mail to any recipient. Servers identified in the campaign were collected from existing anti-spam blacklists such as the Open Relay Database and the Open Proxy...
[January 30, 2004, 14:05]
One giant step towards ending spam
News Originally, any SMTP server would accept mail from anyone, for anyone -- known as an open relay. Open relay abuse can be dealt with by only permitting mail from or addressed to that server's registered users.
[March 17, 2004, 14:40]
Spammers conscript home PCs to do dirty work
News Computers vulnerable to viruses could be more likely to download a program that turns the system into an open relay, for instance. The latest Sobig.e variant opens a series of five ports through which the virus downloads additional software to turn...
[June 27, 2003, 13:03]
Fighting back against spam
News This use of tarpitting is particularly effective against spammers attempting to use your email server as an open relay. An open relay is a mail server that is capable of processing messages where neither the sender nor the recipient is a local user.
[November 13, 2003, 10:10]
Old spam ID system issues unusual final call
Blog The Open Relay Database (ORDB), which was put to bed at the end of 2006, has apparently started returning false positives for every IP address that gets run through it. The idea seems to be to give spam filter admins a whack upside the head (using...
[March 26, 2008, 11:43]
Plug pulled on anti-spam project
News The Open Relay Database (ORDB) was set up by volunteers five years ago, shortly after the dot-com boom ended. The general consensus within the team is that open relay RBLs [relay blocking lists] are no longer the most effective way of preventing...
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
MessageLabs tagged as a 'spammer'
News Mail filtering specialist MessageLabs has come in for criticism after it was blocked by AOL's spam filters amid allegations that it had an open relay which was pumping out spam. He told silicon.com: "We have more than 6,000 customers, and every now...
[July 7, 2003, 13:51]
AOL filter prevents anonymous email
Talkback If you can't send email then it is usually because you have an open relay on your server. Details of how to be removed from the AOL block list are listed at their website.http://postmaster.info.aol.com/faq/mailerfaq.html
[January 26, 2004, 12:09]
One giant step towards ending spam
Talkback This means customers will be required to host their domain with the same provider as their dial-up connection, since the constraint on open relay means email senders always need to send smtp via the SMTP server at the ISP they dial in to.
[April 13, 2004, 11:39]
Kiara: An Open Source SIP System to Support Deaf Telephony
White Papers This paper describes Kiara, an open source SIP-based communication system that provides the building blocks to enable Deaf relay services. The work-in-progress concerns the addition of relay services for the Deaf.
[February 6, 2009, 0:00]
Tenon WEBmail
Downloads And like Post.Office, it also includes SPAM filtering and SMTP Authentication (to ensure mail server open relay protection, while giving authorized users world-wide access to the mail server). WEBmail is an easy-to-use web mail client that can be...
[June 14, 2004, 8:00]
Exchange flaw leaves systems 'open to spammers'
News There are dozens of messages -- with subject lines such as "Open relay problem" and "We are sending spam? Even if you think you've done everything [to secure the server], you are still open to spammers.
[November 17, 2003, 10:05]
Worm hijacks open source database
News It automatically exploits MySQL servers and subsequently infects Windows systems when triggered by an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server located in Sweden. According to MySQL there are around five million installations of the open source database...
[January 27, 2005, 16:40]
GK Push Mail for Windows Mobile 2003
Downloads Then send them out all at once when you are connected- Automatic send/receive even when the PDA is turned off - you can tell the program to automatically send/receive Emails at your defined intervals even when the device is in sleep mode or has...
[June 24, 2006, 8:00]
Trojan compromises email delivery
News Windows-based systems infected by mprox provide spammers with an open relay or "proxy server" for sending email and other messages. Most varieties of Randex affect Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP systems, and according to security...
[October 15, 2003, 10:10]
New Sobig strain hijacks PCs to relay spam
News An open relay is a computer that accepts email bound for other destinations and then resends the messages anonymously. This is almost certainly being precipitated by a spammer that is trying to create more open relays to send spam," said Mark...
[June 26, 2003, 7:55]
Email meltdown claims slammed
News Many ISPs have blocked open relay ports, such as port 25, to shut out spammers from disseminating messages from home-operated servers. Postini believes that SpamHaus is badly overreacting to the recent news that some spam zombies now relay spam...
[February 4, 2005, 13:10]
Tuesday
Blog I relay this story later in the day to a pal who's just set up his own 802.11b wireless network, the only one in his street. It does open up the possibility that those young warchalking dudes who plod the streets looking for open wireless...
[September 20, 2002, 17:59]
Saddam used as worm lure
News Bobax-H will also try to disable antivirus and security software, as well as install an email relay module to transform the PC into a spam factory. Bobax.H, which affects PCs running Microsoft Windows, propagates when people open an email...
[February 4, 2005, 8:25]
