[Demon Internet ABUSE #61597] Re: [MiNT] Mail delivery failed: returning message (fwd)

[John Blakeley <john.blakeley@mon.bbc.co.uk>]

> johnnie ligotage <johnnie@ligotage.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Hi
> >
> >On Tuesday, I sent an email to a friend at a German university. The
> email
> >was returned with the following text:
> >
> >>     host prinz-atm.cs.uni-magdeburg.de [141.44.30.2]:
> >>     550 open relay 194.217.242.90;see:http://www.orbs.org
> >
> >Apparently, 141.44.30.2 has 194.217.242.90, aka post.demon.co.uk, in
> it's
> >database of insecure relay hosts used by spammers.
> >
> >Not only is this annoying for me, but it implies that Demon's smtp
> relay
> >host has been blacklisted.
> >
> >I don't know how extensive this is, but I thought that you would want
> to
> >know.
>
> Thank you for your mail. This was the result of a customer's mailserver
> being open to third-party relay, and using post.demon.co.uk as a
> smarthost for outgoing mail; at no point has post.demon.co.uk itself
> been vulnerable to relay. The customer's mailserver has since been
> secured, and the ORBS listing removed. We apologise for the
> inconvenience.
>
> Dylan
>
> -- 
> AUP Liaison

It seems that this is sorted now.

Salut/.

J/.
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John Blakeley