According to Masood Ali Chaudry: While burning my CPU. > > > > Hello Richard! > > We are running a small UUCP based off-line email setup. One of our machine > is connected with Internet with a static IP address (through leased line > with a local ISP). I received the follwoing message from one of my friend. > Kindly read it and tell me how I can stop this mail relay thing. > > This is the message sent to me. > > "It seems that your mail server is an open mail relay and is being > used by people to relay spam. Please ask your administrator to fix > it asap. Spam and an open relay is particularly bad for you as being > a mail relay is the primary function of your server and it costs > your users money to receive spam ;-( > > The reason I noticed this is because the last 3 spam messages > rejected by our system have been relayed by your server. To be > absolutely sure, I tried it myself. > > Fortunately, your machine is not yet listed in the sites which > maintain a list of open relays, but with your kind of mail volume, > it could get there pretty fast." > > Kindly help me to secure my machine. Thanks. > Install the lates verion of sendmail, that has the ability to exclude spam, contact the person who send you the message and ask him for details on configuring your new version of senmail. > > --Mac > -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
