If anyone can point me in a direction or to a mailing list on topic, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'm trying to breath life into my web work again, and this week discoverd that my little mail server IP (I'm running Post.office) was added to a "SpamWatch" list (ORDB.org) and I immediately got a call from a client that their email was rejected from a foriegn host because that host uses the ORDB service. After two hours of trying to understand email relaying, I had no choice at the moment to stop ALL relaying to get off that server. This however is completely unrealistic from how I understand relaying to work for clients... Let's say I've got a client in California, who has a return address of one of my local accounts, but hey, they're not sending email from inside my network, so I originally said only allow relaying for mail with local domain names in the FROM field... With spammers spoofing good FROM fields these days, ORDB says - no go.... so then I think my only choice is to allow specific IP's... but how am I supposed to know what IP a client is using if they're on a dial up account, say through AOL or PacBell, or some little host in Iowa that forces dynamic changing IPs with each log-on? Their IP changes. Surely I can't let ALL AOL IPs through or ALL PacBell IPs through... there's got to be spammers on one or both of those right? So how do I deal with this? What is the correct configuration? Just as a side note - last year, before I even understood about relaying at ALL, I had allowed ALL mail through, and of course, my server flooded one day to the point of shutdown because some spammer found my server as an open invitation! SO I truly need and want to do what's right here... hey - I already get over 500 spam emails a day filtering through my local workstation ya know? Rafael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
