set it to relay for local host, that isn't much better than relay for anyone but a
start.. you might consider smtp auth..
Dooz Owings
Black List put it this way if you get on it dont worry sending mail.
if you get on this list a lot of domains will not accept mail from you.
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:35:39 T. Bradley Dean wrote:
>A few postings:
>>How are your relay settings set?
>>Time to get your system ready not to relay.
>>If you're relaying ... You probably just made it on a black list
>
>I have it set to: 'Relay mail for anyone'. If I change this, will my users
>still be able to send email from their homes? I have web hosting customers
>(no dial up access) as well as employees access iMail. Some mail is sent
>from the iMail web access, some is sent internally (same network as iMail
>server), some is sent from people dialing up through another ISP, and some
>is sent from ASP pages (same server as iMail). How can I make sure none of
>this is interrupted, but at the same time make sure that spammers can't use
>my iMail machine for the evil spamming plans?
>
>By the way, what's a black list?
>
>Bradley Dean
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fitscape.com
>Internet Relations
>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:21 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked
>
>
>How are your relay settings set?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T. Bradley Dean
>> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:42 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked
>>
>>
>> Okay guys, this is weird!
>>
>> I have a iMail copybox email set up so I see all email going through my
>> server. I just had 44 emails sent in the span of few minutes. All
>> were sent
>> from CompuServe accounts to CompuServe accounts.
>>
>> First an email would be Subject "208.170.56.151", the body would
>> simply say
>> "test". Then an email would be Subject "208.170.56.151 Test Report", the
>> body would say "It took 1 seconds to send the test email through server
>> 208.170.56.151". It looks like this was done for all the IP
>> addresses on my
>> iMail server.
>>
>> I tried to contact the schmuck doing this, but CompuServe returned the
>> email, user unknown.
>>
>> SO here are my questions: Who, What, Where, and Why?! Here is the header
>> from one of the emails:
>>
>> Received: from gnsyi.compuserve.com [209.207.216.180] by mail.infodish.com
>> (SMTPD32-5.00) id AF0012801F2; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:54:40 PST
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: 208.170.56.155 Test Report
>> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:54:41 PST
>> X-UIDL: 263256716
>> Status: U
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bradley Dean
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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