R. Scott Perry, THANK YOU. Your response was consise and accurate without having to swing a dead cat over my head and say a chant. I have configured all IP addresses on our servers to be allowed without SMTP Auth; all mail clients will be configured to send AUTH info when sending mail. A little inconvenience in having to support all our mail client changes balanced against the big inconvenience of being blacklisted and relayed to death by the spammers who discover us. Your help was much appreciated!
Another question... is there any way to get the SysLog service to put the log files somewhere else, other than the SPOOL directory? I find this annoying, since log files should never be "spooled", and it makes troubleshooting/cleaning the spool directory and the archiving of certain log files a true pain in the butt. Thanks for any input you can provide. Marc Funaro -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Blackholed! Special Circumstances... > > Well, I had set our SMTP Mail Relay option to "Relay for local hosts > > only". Yep... Got blackholed by ORBZ. That's right. "Relay for Addresses" or "No Mail Relay" are the only two options that will prevent outside spammers from sending mail through your servers. > > The general consensus is, use "No Mail Relay" and require SMTP AUTH > > on our mail clients. Either that or "Relay for Addresses" is fine (the only difference is that Relay for Addresses lets you enter "safe" IP addresses that don't need to use SMTP AUTH). > > The problem is, we have a ColdFusion server that must send mail through > this > > server, and the CFMAIL tag does not have username/password attributes. What > > I need is the ability to use SMTP AUTH *or* allow my ColdFusion server's IP > > address -- I think. Unless there's another way. That's correct -- in that case, you need to use "Relay for Addresses", and enter the IP of the ColdFusion server. > > How can I stay off the spam lists, but still allow JUST my ColdFusion > > server to send mail through this iMail server without authenticating, > AND require > > our actual mail clients to authenticate? No, we can't know the IP > > addresses of the mail clients. That's not a problem. "Relay for Addresses" is 100% identical to your existing "No Mail Relay" -- except that people coming from the IP addresses you specify aren't going to be require to use SMTP AUTH. So your existing customers, no matter what IP they are on, can use SMTP AUTH. > > Other settings that you guys might comment upon while pondering this... > > > > checked -- refuse NULL <> Senders This you should change, so that you can receive bounce messages. Hopefully, Ipswitch will add a big warning saying "THIS WILL MAKE YOUR SERVER NON-RFC-COMPLIANT" to a future release. Note that with this box checked, you'll end up in http://www.rfc-ignorant.org , and a small amount of your outgoing mail may not be accepted at remote mail servers. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.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/ 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/
