thanks everyone - I finally got of it - what a pain
On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 08:04 AM, Bridges, Samantha wrote: > Hi. > > I just went thru this....this week actually. I upgraded Imail from > 6.06 to > 7.05. When I did, ORDB reported my mail server as open relay. I used > to > relay for local users and that is what the setting remained as after the > upgrade. I ended up changing the relay to "Relay for Addresses". I was > able to cover a range of IP addresses. I had ORDB re-test my relay and > it > came back clean. > > Isn't that kinda strange that you can put in a range of addresses but > not > relay for local users? Whatever works! > > Hope this helps. > > Samantha > > -----Original Message----- > From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ORDB:[IMail Forum] Getting off ORDB? > > > >> Anyone have any experience getting off ORDB - I've changed the service >> to >> "No Mail Relay" and their tests are still saying it''s open - it's >> really >> screwing things up for us > > Well, the real question is: Were they able to relay E-mail through your > server? If they were, you have a problem, and need to figure out what > it > is. > > You can check your IMail SMTP log file for today (February 19) at > 19:21:56, > and I bet you'll see that your mail server did relay the E-mail. > > So in order to get out of their database, you need to figure out how > they > were able to use your open relay. The "No mail relay" requires SMTP > AUTH, > but their tests don't use SMTP AUTH, so you should double-check your > relay > settings. > > > -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/ > > Thanks - md 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/
