I thought my settings we're setup properly.

Maybe it is just how I had my email program setup to test this (I do have
the reply-to address different).

Hmmm... I will keep watch.

I am making serious changes to my WAN router so maybe that will help to.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange new Problem


>Jason,
>
>When using 'Relay for local hosts only', ANYONE who uses '@yourdomain' in
>their return address, can send email through your system. So if I change my
>reply address to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', I could use your system and send email
>to anybody, even if dand is not a valid user account.
>
>I did just try this with your server and was not succesful in sending a
>message to myself. This implies that you have changed the Relay settings.
>Since I could not do it this way, the only other method that someone might
>use, would be to have the recipient be a user in your domains, and have a
>BCC that includes outside addresses. IMail would accept the message (since
>it is for a valid user) and IMail then tries (and is succesful) delivering
>to the BCC address(es).
>
>Daniel Donnelly
>Ipswitch Technical Support
>________________________________________________________
>See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jason Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange new Problem
>
>
>> I was wondering why people from other servers can use my SMTP server when
>I
>> specifically have it setup in the SMTP Security to only Relay Mail for a
>> select group of hosts?
>>
>> About 6 months ago I upgraded to IMail 6 and patched it to 6.03 right
>away.
>>
>> Recently I used the SMTP patch, but I believe this started months ago.
>>
>> The only other change that I made was adding a new entry to the Relay
>> options for some company's router.
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
>> Thanks
>> ==================================================
>> Jason Grant
>> System Administrator at Norlink Communications and Consulting
>> 428 E. Victoria Ave. Thunder Bay, Ont. Canada. P7C 1A5
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