[clue-tech] mail works some of the time

[Greg Knaddison]

Thanks very much Jon and David and William for your help on this
problem.  It was key to fixing it for me and understanding why they
setup their system the way they do.

The resolution I got from powweb was basically that while they allow
their web servers to use the mail() function in php as a convenience
that works some of the time, they prefer that each account set up a
php.ini that points the mail() function towards a separate and "good"
SMTP server which is not used as an open relay.

On the one hand, it's sad that they are basically saying it's OK to
use their mail server as an open relay.  On the other hand it's quite
reasonable as a web-host that serves hundreds of thousands of
accounts, how could you possibly keep your machines free of
open-relays when there are bunches of open relays in contact forms all
over the world.

Thanks again!

Greg

On 5/31/06, Jon Buttjer <jontheisguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
> Good morning.
>
> I just found this phishing-type bogus email in my gmail spam folder.
> Normally I would have deleted it, but it was interesting due to the
> headers:
>
> X-Gmail-Received: 72ff67c071753d1b2000ea3f62d9bfeb3ed21c89
> Delivered-To: jontheisguy at gmail.com
> Received: by 10.54.78.20 with SMTP id a20cs1758wrb;
>         Mon, 29 May 2006 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT)
> Received: by 10.36.158.2 with SMTP id g2mr3766995nze;
>         Mon, 29 May 2006 18:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
> Return-Path: <musthangings at clust10-www05.powweb.com>
> Received: from clust10-www05.powweb.com (clust10-www05.powweb.com
> [66.152.98.105])
>         by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j4si2978612nzd.2006.05.29.18.41.58;
>         Mon, 29 May 2006 18:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
> Received-SPF: pass (gmail.com: best guess record for domain of
> musthangings at clust10-www05.powweb.com designates 66.152.98.105 as
> permitted sender)
> Received: by clust10-www05.powweb.com (Postfix, from userid 180940)
>         id 217A618B274; Mon, 29 May 2006 18:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
> To: jontheisguy at gmail.com
> Subject: PayPal Security Notice No:13966
> From: PayPal Alert <mail13966 at alert139.security.com>
> Content-Type: text/html
> Message-ID: <1606900731.JavaMail.13966 at on-Mail005>
> X-PayPal-EID:000348575301
> X-PayPal-MailTracker: 10707.453.181.0
> X-PayPal-invdate:May 29, 2006
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
> You may wish to inform them that someone is using their system as
> open-relay or a customer is not abiding by a valid TOS agreement.
>
> PS.  If you don't wish to deal with this, I understand and will stop
> writing as well.  It only seems as if its from the same host place
> that you are discussing in this thread.
>
> Just wanting to let you know.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>


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