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Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 07 2008 08:37PM
pablo ximenes upr edu (2 replies)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 10 2008 01:55PM
Michael Scheidell (scheidell secnap net) (1 replies)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 10 2008 06:04PM
Todd T. Fries (todd fries net) (3 replies)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 11 2008 09:37AM
Bojan Zdrnja (bojan zdrnja gmail com)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 11 2008 02:42AM
Clifton Royston (cliftonr lava net)
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:04:42PM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> 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*.

Google outscatter is one longstanding problem, but this is a
different problem which allows spammers to use Google's MXes as their
outbound mailservice.

Google's chronic silence on all abuse reports makes it impossible to
tell whether they've taken any action on the problem, whether the
problem reports have even made it to the operational staff responsible
for the mailservers, or whether they simply don't care.

I'm sure you can all make your own snarky comments re "Do no evil".

-- Clifton

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[ reply ]
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 10 2008 06:18PM
Todd T. Fries (todd fries net) (1 replies)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 10 2008 07:03PM
Lamont Granquist (lamont scriptkiddie org)
Re: Exploiting Google MX servers as Open SMTP Relays May 08 2008 02:32AM
Gadi Evron (ge linuxbox org)


 

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