>> Just deny anonymous email on 587. >> I've never seen a spammer touch 587 though.
> Hmmm... good idea. Although I'm not sure if my MTA allows for that. Will > have to look into it. More importantly though, I don't know how easily it > will be to convince all my users to reconfigure their clients (esp. the PC > illiterate ones). I went through something similar a long time ago... 1. Get encrypted connections working first, alongside non-encrypted ones, so that they both work. 2. Write up and send out dummy-proof step-by-step instructions for the most popular mail clients, and then send out warning emails to everyone that will be affected, explaining what you are doing and why (in layman's terms, of course), and set a deadline when you will be terminating the non-encrypted connection support. 3. Make the changes yourself to any/all computers that are local to you that are used by any management types. Be sure to explain in person to these people what/why you are doing, ask them about what they use to access email from the outside, and hand them a printed copy of the instructions for their client - or, prepare instructions for their client if it is one that you hadn't already prepared instructions for. 4. Give everyone a cell/home phone number they can reach you at for when they can't figure out your dummy-proof instructions... 5. Send out warnings 3 days before terminating the non-encrypted connection support. 6. Send out a final warning the day before. 7. Terminate non-encrypted connections. 8. Answer an un-ending series of help calls when people call screaming that they cannot access their email, and be prepared for the names they will call you for daring to do something like this without any warning. -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
