Subject: Postfix is an Open Relay with setup defaults on ALL IP

From: "Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:15:56 +0200

> forwarded 418511 [email-masked]
> --
> 
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:54:05AM +0000, Debian BTS wrote:
>> Package: postfix
>> Version: 2.3.8-2+b1
>> Severity: minor
>> 
>> main.cf documentation should state clearly that 
>> mynetworks_style = subnet 
>> relays open for ALL IP pool providers, 
>> not only for classic ppp "dialup" providers.
> 
> This is precisely why the debian install sets mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8.
> (mynetworks_style is newer.)  If you can't trust your neighbors, then
> you want to have a more restrictive mynetworks_style.

sorry, but i fail to understand what you want to say by
"relays open for ALL IP pool providers,"

is this "issue" still pending or has it been resolved upstream?

for example, i see an update to main.cf in
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lamont/postfix.git;a=commitdiff;h=c6e2f813#patch22

cheers,
raoul