Re: [Security-Discuss] Problems of SPAM with Postfix

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:38, Tommaso Leonardi wrote:
> Thankyou for your help, but i still don't understand one thing: what is 
> exactly an open relay? And is it a good thing to have one?
> Thankyou for your help and for your patience...
> 

It's definitely NOT a good idea to have an open relay. An open relay is
where someone who is not on your network can send an e-mail to someone
else who is also not on your network using your mail server.

As you can imagine, spammers target open relays to send their spew from.

Matt

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