Excellent points Bill, thanks a lot - this makes a lot of sense. HOWEVER, I did add EnableAuthSMTP-POP3 and set it to 0 and it still allows me to send messages without authentication.
Any ideas? My smtprelay.tab is empty.... Thanks for the input. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:51 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Mail never arrives > > If you restrict the IP addresses from which you can get mail you will be > limited to getting mail from only those domain servers. What you want to > do is empty the smtprelay.tab file, then the only way to relay a message > through the server is to send authentication first. Local domain > messages can be received from anyone. > > Bill > > ps. Sending authentication when you send a message is just a check box > in most mail programs. > pps. Don't get faked out by the fact that you can relay messages through > the server from your mail program if you don't have authentication > turned on. If you have recently POPped mail xmail remembers that > authentication and uses it for the mail you are relaying. If you want to > confirm your server is secure then put "EnableAuthSMTP-POP3"<tab>"0" in > your server.tab file to disable this feature that is enabled by default. > ppps. When Davide said use smtp auth he didn't mean use the smtpauth.tab > file but turn on send smtp authentication in your mail client. - 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]
