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Re: Stopping open proxies and open relays


From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 08:51:42 -0500


Gregh wrote:

Optus in Australia have taken the line of blocking port 25 to anything at
all excepting contact with their own servers. Seems to work. Some pissed off
customers with their own smtp progs etc but my guess is that this would fit
your bill.

Earthlink and many others have been doing this in the US for a long time. 

But, they don't require any "authorization" in sending, despite that 
being available built-in to NetScape/Mozilla for many years, and they 
don't seem to actually scan their outgoing email for virii and cut off 
the user.

I'm not sure this is the answer.
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