[ILUG] eircom.net open relay?

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:40:42PM +0000, Ronan Waide wrote:

> > Of course they will - that's what any ISP should do. Some ISPs apparently
> > restrict mail with from addresses in their domains, which sucks.
> 
> Do you really think that any ISP should have an open relay, or am I
> somehow misreading what you just said?

Of course you're misreading what I said - did you read the thread or did you
just jump in ? Some people found it odd that an ISP would forward mail (from
a machine for which it will relay) with an arbitrary From: header - I and
others were explaining why this is correct behaviour.


Niall