qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay

Wed Jul 16 02:18:41 UTC 2003

Yup, what he said.

yeah, all those lovely home based DSL/Cable/Wireless users with Linux/BSD 
qmail-smtp-auth setups thinking they are safe and can relay off of their 
nifty box at home / soho.

Weeeee

john

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:53:38AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:45:44 -0800, "W.D. McKinney" <dee at akwireless.net>  said:
> > Did you mean to post this on the qmail list per chance ?
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 08:34, John Brown wrote:
> 
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail&m=105452174430616&w=2
> 
> Doubtful, he's *citing* a posting from an archive of the qmail list. ;)
> 
> It's a heads-up for your abuse desk, that the trojaned DSL/cablemodem customers
> of yours that have been acting as spam relays are likely to start scanning for
> open qmail servers to abuse....
> 