On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:16:39PM -0500, Eugene Chai wrote: > > > > > > 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$oft. > > > > > > sorry and thanks so much. > > > > Eugene > > Well did you try to setting it to only relay for you domain? I know Sendmail postfix and qmail all can be set to do that. Im done know exchange, but these abilities should be in every email server. If im correct its in a rfc for it. But then when have M$ ever followed the RFC's when they didnt want to.
Good luck and let me know how it goes Craig
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