You're going to have to get tough on the "relay mail for addresses" option
or you're going to end up in the ORBs database if you're not there already.
We're an ISP primarily but we also host web sites for people all over the US
and a couple of foreign countries. I tell remote hosting customers that if
they don't have a verifiable static IP to use their ISP's smtp server and
use our pop3 server or use the web interface. It's a firm policy that has
never cost me a customer, they understand if you explain it to them.
David Daniels
System Administrator
Starfish Internet Service
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Clicking my fingers to the bone"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Infocon-Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail_Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] PLEASE HELP - I AM BEING SPAMMED!!!
>
> I use IMAIL 6.05 (with all latest patches) on Win2000 (SP1).
> I also have a Cisco 1605 router with IOS 11.3 and the Firewall feature
set.
> My domains all have their own IP's (on the one IMAIL machine) and all the
> users in those domains are verified through an ODBC connection to an SQL
> database.
>
> I have for a long time tried to disable mail relay (using both "no mail
> relay" and "mail relay for addresses"), and everytime I have problems.
> If I have NO mail relay, then:
> if I DONT have "my server requires authentication" checked, I get the
> correct "not a gateway" error - thats fine.
> but...
> if I DO have "my server requires anthentication" checked, I get the error
> "The TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by the server.
(Account:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], SMTP Server: mail.infocon.pl, Error Number:
> 0x800ccc0f)"
>
> I read that maybe this is a firewall problem (according to article KB
> http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000707-DM02.htm) but when I try to
> execute the command "no fixup protocol smtp 25" on the router via telnet,
I
> get errors.
>
> If anyone has ideas, please please help, because this morning I had 33000
> spam emails waiting in the spool directory. Because of the spam, all my
> users (about 1000 of them) get their mails choked in the queue for hours
> (sometimes they never even get to the destination).
>
> As an intermediate solution I used a kill file to enter all the emails
> addresses, IP
> addresses and domains that I could identify as spammers, but this
obviously
> is a short term solution (very short term).
>
> If there is anything elase I can do in IMAIL (I tried all combinations of
> disabling AUTH VRFY and AUTH REPORTING but no luck), or with any other
> product then I would be very much obliged.
>
> please help,
> Marcin
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Infocon - Sales Force Management Systems
> Infocon - Systemy Zarządzania Siecią Przedstawicieli
> Tel: +48 602 193333, +48 22 8224988
> Fax: +48 602 141933, +48 22 8224991
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: www.infocon.pl
> Warsaw, Poland
> --------------------------------------------
>
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
> An Archive of this list is available at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
>
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
