Blog Archive for November 29, 2009

Open Relay Testing

November 29, 2009

Want to test if your SMTP server is an open relay? Here's a couple of methods provided by abuse.net.

Telnet

If you have access to the mail server (for example, it's on your Virtual Private Server, run (as a normal user):

telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org

This will run a series of …