On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lee Rich wrote:
> Hi all, I hope someone can help.. > Over the past few days our XMail system (running on linux) has been receiving >thousands (I deleted 31,000 yesterday) emails addressed to unknown users. Below is a >sample from one of the emails that ended up in the admin mailbox. Do these messages >mean that the mail server will not relay for others, or do they mean that the server >will relay, but cannot send to these addresses for 'X' reason? > Our XMail server is intended only to be used as a recieving mail server. That is, it >accepts incoming email for our domain (and it's four aliases) but nothing else. It >then stores these mails in the respective maildir's and allows collection via pop3 by >our OfficeTalk server (which then distributes the emails to the users). The server >should also be permitted to send bounce messages back to people informing them of any >problems with the delivery of their email. (If they tried to send to an invalid user >on one of our domains.) > Now, I know I've been going on and on about the same point in several messages to >this mail list. But I just can't get this thing to bed-down. Please can someone help >me here, I'm getting closer to the end of my rope ;) how did you configure your server ? why is XMail accepting messages from unknown users ? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
