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Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays
From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr () lava net>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:42:19 -1000
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
Yes this is very frustrating. The details are not so hard to guess. Unless this post is different, anyone can send an email to a nonexistent user at a google service and they accept it and bounce back to the envelope recipient. *sigh*.
Google outscatter is one longstanding problem, but this is a different problem which allows spammers to use Google's MXes as their outbound mailservice. Google's chronic silence on all abuse reports makes it impossible to tell whether they've taken any action on the problem, whether the problem reports have even made it to the operational staff responsible for the mailservers, or whether they simply don't care. I'm sure you can all make your own snarky comments re "Do no evil". -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr () iandicomputing com / cliftonr () lava net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services
Current thread:
- Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays pablo . ximenes (May 07)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Michael Scheidell (May 10)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Todd T. Fries (May 10)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Todd T. Fries (May 10)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Lamont Granquist (May 12)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Clifton Royston (May 12)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Bojan Zdrnja (May 12)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Todd T. Fries (May 10)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Michael Scheidell (May 10)
- Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays Gadi Evron (May 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays pablo . ximenes (May 12)
- Re: Re: Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays pablo . ximenes (May 21)