[PLUG] How dangerous is handling my own mail?

[Brent Rieck]

Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Brent Rieck wrote:
>>Was that by happenstance or by design?
> 
> I'm not quite sure what the referrent is for "that", but I'll take a guess
> and tell you that the openness of the relay was by design.

I'm sorry about the ambiguous "that" and by that I mean did you just 
open it up on the Internet and forget about it or did you do anything to 
obsfucate the relay or make it non-attractive to people who send spam.

> Well, that's just it.  You take the pains on one side or the other.  Do
> you bother with good, effective spam filtering (which takes care of ALL
> your spam, regardless of source) or do you spend time securing your mail
> server and setting up authentication for SMTP and SSL to make sure the
> passwords don't get yoinked and so on?
> 
> Oh wait, you're going to do the first ANYWAY, so why bother doing the
> second?

I don't have a point to prove Jeme, I am just curious about open relays.

--Brent