Marc, Your concerns are valid. For example, if you do a lot of forwarding to AOL and that forwarding includes content that is detrmined by them to be spam, you take the hit. In essence, YOUR SERVER is relaying the garbage to them.
Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure solutions. (949) 584-1514 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc A. Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:29 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Stupid forwarding question You don't see a problem with thousands of messages being received by the server, and being sent back out to external mailboxes unnecessarily?? This is twice as much work for the server, clutters the logs, and makes it difficult to see if individual accounts have been compromised... and could be viewed as a SPAM relay since the from address is typically forged or spam-related, the subjects are spam-related, and the destination address is not on our server, but comes from our server. Now, maybe that last argument is valid, maybe it's not, but why should we provide the bandwidth for a customer to do something like this, when they HAVE an email account with us already? Gerboinging mail off our server is a pointless configuration, and if you multiply the amount of SPAM times the number of users that do this, you end up with a lot of wasted processor time, disk access time, and bandwidth. Are you telling me there's no way to keep incoming mail from going right back out to another address? > -----Original Message----- > From: ISPhuset Nordic AS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Stupid forwarding question > > > Don't forget all the aliases that you have to think about... > > I really don's see the problem ? > > The only way I can see you stopping this is to not alow your > users to do any administration by themself and not allow webmail, then > they can't setup the forwarding. > > Benny > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Marc A. Funaro > > Sent: 28. januar 2004 17:11 > > To: iMail List (E-mail) > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Stupid forwarding question > > > > I checked the manual and the online KB, but can't find my answer... > > > > We have found that several clients are forwarding incoming > > mail on our server, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] to their AOL > > or other ISP accounts. This is causing our server to do > > unnecessary work, especially with those users that receive a > > lot of SPAM... spam comes in, and immediately goes back out > > to another address. It's also cluttering the log files, and > > could make us look "not so good" > > > > We plan to implement a change in policy, stating that we will > > no longer permit forwarding of incoming mail to a users > > account to a destination off the server. However, I don't > > know how to put "teeth" on this policy... is there a way to > > set iMail to not allow forwarding from mailboxes? And, is > > there any way to get an easy list of all the POP accounts > > that have forwarding specified? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Marc > > > > > > > > > > Advantex LLC > > Technical Consulting Services > > > > Marc Funaro, President > > > > Macromedia Certified > > Advanced ColdFusion > > 5.0 Developer5547 State Highway 12 > > Norwich, NY 13815 > > > > VOX: 607-336-6895 > > FAX: 801-383-4864 > > > > 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/ > > > > > 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/ 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/ 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/
