Shoot the www.mail-abuse.org people! They have given me nothing but fits
too and the adjustments I made have been tested and tested for relay (the
tests failed) and the organization will still not get me removed. Go
figure.
Philip
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lapides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:29 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Relay security and aliases
> I recently was the target of a relay spam attack and it took a while to
> close the loophole and get my relay settings right. Due to the hosting
> arrangements I have, installing a gateway isn't going to be feasible. But
> setting the relaying options to relay for local hosts seemed to work.
>
> However, I recently found out that mail from my domain was being rejected
as
> I had been put on the RSS list.
> In order to get my server removed from the RSS (Relay Stopper Service at
> http://www.mail-abuse.org) I've had to tighten up my security to only
allow
> relaying from authorized users (not hosts). To allow my users to send mail
> from these aliases, I have had to put them ALL into an "accept" file. Is
> there anyway to have this accept file automatically sync with the defined
> aliases for the domain?
>
> It will be an administrative nightmare to keep them synced up manually,
but
> I can't afford to wind up on the RSS list again.
>
> ARGHHHH!!!! What should I do?
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
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