The server was set up using the configuration files. And once everything seemed in order, the system went live. It would seem there was an error within the relaying settings. But all has now be sorted. (Additional thanks to Bill Healy)! ;)
-----Original Message----- From: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 07/06/2002 17:23 Subject: [xmail] Re: Open Relay? On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Lee Rich wrote: > Hi all, I hope someone can help.. > Over the past few days our XMail system (running on linux) has been receiving >thousands (I deleted 31,000 yesterday) emails addressed to unknown users. Below is a >sample from one of the emails that ended up in the admin mailbox. Do these messages >mean that the mail server will not relay for others, or do they mean that the server >will relay, but cannot send to these addresses for 'X' reason? > Our XMail server is intended only to be used as a recieving mail server. That is, it >accepts incoming email for our domain (and it's four aliases) but nothing else. It >then stores these mails in the respective maildir's and allows collection via pop3 by >our OfficeTalk server (which then distributes the emails to the users). The server >should also be permitted to send bounce messages back to people informing them of any >problems with the delivery of their email. (If they tried to send to an invalid user >on one of our domains.) > Now, I know I've been going on and on about the same point in several messages to >this mail list. But I just can't get this thing to bed-down. Please can someone help >me here, I'm getting closer to the end of my rope ;) how did you configure your server ? why is XMail accepting messages from unknown users ? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
