>thanks everyone - I finally got of it - what a pain
Yes, it is painful to close an open relay. But compare the pain to the
company with 900 employees that had a spammer use their open relay
yesterday (starting about an hour after they closed). They used a return
address on one of our domains, so we're getting lots of their bounce
messages. From the thousands of bounce messages we've received, and how
long their mail server was unusable, I'm guessing they probably sent out
close to a million E-mails. Needless to say, there was nobody at this
company that could be contacted until this morning, after most of the
damage had been done. Now, will likely have to sift through thousands of
complaints from users who received the spam, field a number of phone calls
from angry recipients, clear the mail queue and hopefully not lose any
legitimate E-mail, close the relay (remember that piece that you thought
was so painful?), contact the several dozen spam databases they are now in,
and so forth.
Of course, the boss that said "Naw, we don't need to do that relay closing
thing now, we're a small company, what spammer is going to find us?"
probably feels pretty stupid right about now.
-Scott
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