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poprelayd & sendmail authentication problem

Family:

SMTP problems

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2002 Michel Arboi

Summary:

Checks if the remote mail server can be used as a spam relay

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $

Cve_id:

CVE-2001-1075

Bugtraq_id:

2986

Xrefs:

-

Description:

The remote SMTP server allows relaying for authenticated users.
It is however possible to poison the logs
this means that spammers
would be able to use your server to send their e-mails to
the world, thus wasting your network bandwidth and getting you
blacklisted.

*** Some SMTP servers such as Postfix will display a false positive
*** here

Risk factor : Low

Solution : Disable poprelayd