----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen D. Oland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Nope, Sandy is correct, it checks to confirm that the sender's e-mail > > address is local. However, since anyone can forge a sender's e-mail > > address, it does not prevent you from being an open relay, and > > thus why its > > use is not recommended. > > Yes, exactly, that is a relay only check. Complete unrelated, here. > > Kami is talking for non-relay mail. There is no check of invalid username > in FROM when mail is sent TO a valid local user. Karen, maybe you need to go back and carefully re-read all of the posts regarding this subject. Let me briefly recap for you: Summary of my post reiterating what Kami was asking for (Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:36 PM PST): ===== Eric, I think what Kami is saying is that someone from spammerville sends a message to you at your IPSwitch e-mail address with a "From" address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you receive the message because your account is local, so SMTP Auth is not required. So, he is asking why IMail cannot so a simple check of any "From" address that claims to be from a local domain, and if the account does not exist and is not an alias, then reject the message. Sounds like it could be a nice spam control feature. ===== Follow-up response from Kami (Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:10 AM PST): ===== Bill said what I was trying to say.. ===== So obviously I know what Kami was asking for. Sandy posted a follow-up message that stated very clearly (Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:04 AM PST): ===== IMail does perform this *exact* check if you use the open-relay option "Relay for Local Users." So not just theoretical to imply that the check could be done during the SMTP envelope in a future release (as an option, not a mandate). ===== Sandy was merely stating that most of the code necessary to do what Kami was requesting is already built into IMail. With a bit of tweaking it could probably fairly easily be modified to support this new feature request. Hopefully you are clear on this now... Bill 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/
