On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 14:57, Cowles, Steve wrote: > Don wrote: > > I have sendmail running, and set it up so I can receive mail from > > anywhere. > > > > I've done some rudimentary testing to make sure relaying is not > > allowed, but I'm sure there's people out there more clever than I > > when it comes to hacking into/through systems. > > > > Just like the www.grc.com site that will do a port scan and report > > it's findings, it would be very cool if there was a tool to relay a > > message through a specified smtp server. (The message would be > > generated by the test tool so the tool itself could not be used to > > send spam) > > > > Anyway... does anybody have any suggestions for how to really test > > the security (specifically guarding against unauthorized relaying). > > > > Thanks, > > Don Russell > > (North America: Pacific Time Zone) > > > > \|/ > > (. .) > > ___ooO-(_)-Ooo___ > > > I have always used the following site to test my mail server > > http://abuse.net/relay.html Thanks Steve, That worked great... and increases my confidence level somewhat. :-) Don
