On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First off I really have to thank Davide because Xmail is performing > beautifully for me despite a little problem I am having at the moment. > It seems that someone has determined that my server would be a good one > to use to try to spam a large list of people throughout the country. > While this isn't nearly the problem it could be (because their email > just plain is not getting past the server.) it is still a concern and an > annoyance. At present, these fools have taken their @aol.com account and > have sent well over 1000 messages to my mail server with the apparent > expectations that they would be delivered from there to their final > destination. What happens from there is that the mails are bounced based > on them not being authorized users and I receive a note that the mail > has been returned with the reason at my postmaster account. > > What I want to do is to not even accept mail from these 2 unauthorized > users at all so that it lowers the bandwidth usage (if only by not > sending them reply/bounce messages) and allows me to keep receiving > 'valid errors' when my users make mistakes, but not be spammed into > oblivion. what is the content of your smtprelay.tab ? - 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]
