Yes this is very frustrating.

The details are not so hard to guess. Unless this post is different,
anyone can send an email to a nonexistent user at a google service and
they accept it and bounce back to the envelope recipient. *sigh*.

We are going back to the stone age by copying qmails default stupidity.

This is doing very much harm.

I would even go as far as to say that Google is making a business case for
its latest purchase, postini, in a very evil way, every second this proble
goes unsolved.

*sigh*
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Penned by Michael Scheidell on 20080510 9:55.32, we have:
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| > From: <pablo.ximenes (at) upr (dot) edu [email concealed]>
| > Date: 7 May 2008 20:37:46 -0000
| > To: <bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
| > Subject: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays
| >
| >
| > Vulnerability Report:
| >
| > As part of our recent work on the trust hierarchy that exists among email
| > providers throughout the Internet, we have uncovered a serious security flaw
| > in Ggoogle's free email service, Gmail.
| >
| > Disclosure:
| > We have contacted Google about this issue and are waiting for their position
| > before releasing further details.
| >
|
| Don't hold our breath.. I have tried to get them to close this very hole for
| maybe a year now.
|
| (see/'google' for posts in bugtraq and spamassassin users group showing
| headers from unrelated domains sending spam through google mail servers..
| They ignore the emails to abuse (at) google (dot) com [email concealed])
|
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