> Hello.
>
> Here's my deal.
>
> I got about thirty employees outside the office that access our
> exchange server through IMAP to get their email. Relaying was left
> open so that it is possible for them to send out through our email
> server regardless of how they are connected through the internet.
> Well, seems someone is using my email server for spamming purposes.
> Ummm... So I did everything i'm supposed to do in the virtual SMTP
> properties. i tried to deny relay access from the hotmail.com and
> yahoo.com domains. that doesn't work, i tired to disable anonymous
> authentication in the acess tabs, but this prevents anyone from
> sending. SUpport tells me i should enable a password authentication
> on the outgoing server. Did that, and it rejects the password. Tried
> only basic authentication, nope. Tried every combination of basic,
> integrated, and anonymous authentication. Nope. It either allows
> everyone to relay or no one to send. On the relay tab, i tried grant
> relay to only the list below and left the list empty but checked
> "Allow all computers who authenticate to relay, regardless of list
> above" this doesn't work- no one can send.
>
> Am i making sense here? Please ask me to be more specific if i am not
> making any sense because i do not wanna call micro$oft.
>
>
> sorry and thanks so much.
>
> Eugene
>
