> I'm running Imail 5.09 and discovered that relay is > open. That's bad.
>I had a look at the ipswitch KB and followed > procedure "IMail-How to close an open relay" That's good! > (IM-20021108-DM01), but it didn't work, i.e. I can > still send by my smtp server without authentication. I > presume I should receive an error message from my > client telling me to use uid and pwd in order to sent, > but the mail is still being send. > > I had another look at the KB and found a note at > "IMail - SMTP authetication" (IM-20000117-DM01), > saying that versions prior to 7.0 did not work for > shared IP-address Virtual Hosts which use an external > user database. Well, I'm using the IMail database > *and* shared IP Virtual Hosts. Your only two options to close the relay are: 1. "no relay" 2. "relay for addresses" Anything else is open. > Last question: My POP and SMTP server do have the same > name. My admin says it works correctly this way, but I > don't feel this is correct - any other ISP do have > different names for their POP and SMTP servers. Is > this maybe related to the problem? If you mean sending (SMTP) and recieving (POP) your mail from mail.example.com instead of smtp.example.com & pop.example.com - No. This will not cause a problem. -Patrick --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/McAfee] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
