RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Not Open Relay, but... Your mail system is accepting a mail for an invalid address (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and since it couldn't deliver it it's trying to send a message back to the sender telling them it couldn't

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-27 Thread William Lefkovics
Oh well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Winzenz Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... boggle You tested someone else's domain at abuse.net without permission? You do

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread hawkinsgp
I highly recommend going to one of the sites like mailabuse.org and following their directions to verify that you're not an open relay BEFORE you get blacklisted. It can be a real pain to get off all the blacklists, and your users will scream bloody murder.

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Woods, Tony
-Original Message- From: Dave Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Not Open Relay, but... For #3, what you are seeing is spammer trying to find valid addresses @dfg.com by simply guessing addresses and trying them, your best bet

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Christopher Hummert
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Importance: High I've tested via telnet and from home using Outlook Express and it always replies with 550 so I think I'm good there. Just the amount of mail is insane. I came in this morning

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
on the servers, in order to justify new servers. Jim -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... I've tested via telnet and from home using Outlook Express and it always

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Winzenz
: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:19 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Not Open Relay, but... Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... I tested it using abuse.net's relay test. It looks like your good for not being an open relay. So my

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Christopher Hummert
It's the testing one. Not the one that puts people on the list -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Winzenz Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... boggle You tested someone

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Ben Winzenz
. - Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 Original Message- From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:04 PM Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) Conversation: Not Open Relay, but... Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... It's

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Woods, Tony
a little or are they just using dfg.com? Cheers, Tony -Original Message- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Tony, Open up the properties page of your IMS Connection, go

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Christopher Hummert
Your best solution is to find out the source of those messages, and then block the domain, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Woods, Tony Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
didn't have so many spam domains in my block list. That and the fact that I delete them at least once a day. -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Thanks, Jim. Just so

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
They're just using dfg.com. Don't bother your MX record. -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Thanks, Jim. Just so I'm clear, it's not uncommon to have over

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Woods, Tony
(Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... They're just using dfg.com. Don't bother your MX record. -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:37 PM

Re: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Dave Mills
- Original Message - From: Woods, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Thanks. I've also cut down the Notifications to just 'Host not Found'. One of the NDR's looks like

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-26 Thread Woods, Tony
Thanks, Dave. That's crystal clear. Cheers, Tony -Original Message- From: Dave Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Not Open Relay, but... Your mail system is accepting a mail for an invalid address (i.e. [EMAIL

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-25 Thread John Strongosky
NDR's (non-delivery reports) from spammer's probably. -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Not Open Relay, but... Hello, NT 4 SP6a and Exchange 5.5 SP4. Domain in question is DFG.com

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-25 Thread Woods, Tony
: Not Open Relay, but... NDR's (non-delivery reports) from spammer's probably. -Original Message- From: Woods, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Not Open Relay, but... Hello, NT 4 SP6a and Exchange 5.5 SP4. Domain

Re: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-25 Thread Dave Mills
, June 25, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: RE: Not Open Relay, but... Hi John, Is this in response to my question #3? If so, does everyone receive over 2000 messages every hour in the 'Admin' mailbox with a subject line of 'Notification: Inbound Mail Failure? I understand getting some but over 2000

RE: Not Open Relay, but...

2003-06-25 Thread Ed Crowley
1. Probably not. If your Exchange faces the Internet, it should reject the relay attempt during the RCPT TO: command, so the messages won't be accepted for delivery and therefore they won't be NDRed. 2. Yes. 3. If dfg.com is your domain then it's normal spam to automatically generated