Thanks. I understand that relay is not spam. What I'm seeing are error messages that are generated because the recipient account is no longer active, etc.
The spam messages are from an outside sender to someone not in my company. I don't mind allowing relay if I can stop the spammers from using my server to orignate their emails. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "XMail mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:12 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: how to turn off relay in xmail? > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Giang Lam wrote: > > > > > It seems like other people are using my xmail server for spam (I can see the > > error spam messages still coming through). Which config files should I be > > modifying to just turn the relay off? > > > > I've removed all entries from smtprelay.tab and restarted the server, but I > > can still see the spam error messages coming through. > > Relaying != Spam > If you have the smtprelay.tab empty it's very hard someone can relay > through your server. You cannot prevent spam messages going to your local > accounts with smtprelay.tab though. > > > > > - 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]
