On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 01:18, Robert Horton wrote:
> Quick question: If I set up SMTP so that users have to use a password 
> to send mail, would that end the flood of spammers attempting to use me 
> as a relay?

Sounds horribly like spammers are succeeding in using you as a relay! 
Courier, out of the box, doesn't relay mail.  You have to add an entry
to (a file in) smtpaccess, specifying the IP addresses that are allowed
to use you as a relay, for example

  a.b.c/n    allow,RELAYCLIENT

Hope you haven't got RELAYCLIENT for all addresses!

If you /have/ to allow relaying from any address, perhaps because you
have roaming users, then you posilutely must require authentication! 
Absotively!



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