This is off topic for the list, but I thought this group might be able to
give me some direction.
How do you handle outbound mail?
I really try to keep a lid on spam and my clients aren't shady, but if
something happens to 1 client, then all the clients are affected when
something goes
Do you require SMTP authentication? We enforce SMTP authentication and port
587 for SMTP outbound. So far, I have not seen a virus or worm that uses
SMTP authentication.
Chuck
From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Michael
Cummins
Sent: Wednesday, June
In this case, the outbound Smartermail gateway whitelists the IP addresses
of numerous exchange servers that relay through it. The virus problem we
had a couple weeks ago was one of our client's local users was infected on
one of the networks that hosts the exchange server. It pumped the mail
Why does Hijack not work for you?
It has caught several infected customers for me now.
I pause mail for clients if more than 100 are sent in 10 minutes.
I hold mail if more than 400 are sent in 30 minutes.
So at the worst 400 spams could go out.
My clients know the limits.
We are running another Delude/Sniffer box for as an outbound gateway.
All internal email servers, web and app servers that need to send emails are
filtered thru this first. The purpose of this is to stop hijacked accts, as
well as stopping the spread of known cataloged spam that sniffer is
