Hi,

I noticed that the gmx.net SMTP server was used in a spam run for emails
claimin to be from gmx.de...

Is this a case of badly configured, server? badly configured Client? or
badly configured customer?

I wonder if this is related?

Regards,
T

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:40, wolfgang wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
> Subject: domain homelinux.com is blacklisted
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:27:43 +0200
> From: wolfgang <GeneralP.Faultgmx.net>
> To: someonesomehost.homelinux.com
> Cc: abusewirehub.net, postmasterhomelinux.com
>
> hi ...
>
> while checking my daily LogWatch output i noticed that an email from you was
> discarded by my local sendmail MTA so that i did not receive it.
> log entry:
> g9KKb9I24325: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<.......homelinux.com>,
> relay=data [127.0.0.1], discard
>
> i use the spammer blacklist
> http://basic.wirehub.nl/spamlist-extended.txt to protect myself locally and
> the users of another mail server that i admin from spam.
>
> since homelinux.com is a dyndns domain it is of course possible that spam has
> been sent from a machine running with a homelinux.com hostname - and that
> such spam was reported to wirehub.net so that the entire domain was
> blacklisted. actually, i would assume that it must have been more than one
> incident that caused the blacklisting of the entire domain :(
> this shows the risk of any sender blacklist: "false" positives - something
> you need to be aware of now that you have your postfix running (and
> generally when sending emails on this planet with it's growing amount of
> spam).
>
> for more details about wirehub.net's antispam policy see
> http://basic.wirehub.nl/spamstats.html
>
> i have now excluded homelinux.com from "my" servers' active blacklists so
> that i can receive your mails now, nevertheless you may run into the same
> problem with other mail servers blocking your email address - i know from
> the postfix mailing list that several members who administer postfix mail
> servers use that spamlist-extended.txt as one base for anti-spam rules.
>
> i have just found another dynamic dns domain that some friends of
> mine use in spamlist-extended.txt:
> ath.cx
>
> so it goes.
>
> best regards,
> wolfgang
>
>
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