On 9/2/02, Marc Catuogno penned:
>I had been running my mail server happily for almost a year.  I had 
>checked "relay for addresses" in my SMTP security tab and all e-mail 
>clients had "server requires SMTP Auth".  I thought I was pretty 
>safe... I was wrong.
>

<snip>

>DON'T let this happen to you!  Please check and make sure you are 
>not an open relay.  Then I would also suggest getting Declude Virus 
>with F-protect. The setup was pretty easy and it helped me find out 
>how vulnerable my server really was.

Can you explain how the mail was being relayed if you were using 
Relay For Addresses? I'm using Relay For Addresses, and no one can 
relay through my mail server unless their IP is in the list. Just 
curious. I have Disable VRFY command and Disable AUTH reporting 
unchecked.
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Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

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