Spymac.com, an open relay until the 21st of September, 2004?
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As a member of Spymac.com, I got the following email sent to me on tuesday the 21st of September, and this made me wonder; was the reason that Spymac.com’s SMTP-server for outgoing emails was blacklisted in several RBLs – realtime (spam) blacklists – due to the fact that they didn’t have SMTP authentication activated?
If so, I can’t believe my eyes…
This information may affect you if you use a mail client with Spymac Mail.
Dear member,
Spymac has begun to ask its subscribers to use SMTP authentication when
sending mail from a desktop mail client. Spymac will completely switch
over to SMTP authorization on Sept 24, 2004.
If you are using a desktop mail client like Mail.app or Outlook
Express, you must activate SMTP authentication before this time. This
does not affect you if you use Webmail or your ISP’s SMTP server.
If you do not activate SMTP authorization you will no longer be able to
send mail using Spymac.
If you would like to confirm your mail settings, you can find
instructions here for:
OS X Mail: http://www.spymac.com/support/index.php\?postid=44
Outlook Express for Windows:
http://www.spymac.com/support/index.php\?postid=46
If this is set up, you should have no problems. This change will also
improve the reliability of sending with the Internet’s first free 1 GB
e-mail. Thank you for using Spymac Mail.
-Spymac Technical Support
techsupport@spymac.com
Related link – http://www.spymac.com
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