Re: Is vsnl chennai mail server blacklisted...

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Prem Kurian Philip wrote:

pkphil> Hi!
pkphil> 
pkphil> The VSNL SMTP servers were open relay. I think they
pkphil> have fixed the SMTP relaying now and you will need to be a part of
pkphil> the vsnl domain to use their SMTP relaying facilities now.

Thats true.

VSNL domains were used by spammers very extensively and this used to be a
point of discussion in some newsgroups, giving an impression that all
Indians are spammers, although the real culprits may be someone elsewhere
(even in US). It was only recently that they have secured their sendmail
with anti-spam features. Just another case of carelessness like the
sendmail hacking at BARC (which created news headlines worldwide).


PS: Similarly, several IRC servers are said to have blacklisted the Indian
(VSNL) domains, due to obvious reasons....
-
Oommen.


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