On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Tim McGarvey wrote:

> I have to agree.  I'll admit this makes me an idiot, but my first
> installation I accumulated 40,000 bounces in my postmaster inbox between
> going home on the go-live date and coming in the next morning.  At the very
> least a note in the tab file saying "WARNING, the default configuration is
> an open relay!" or some such.  I know it's not smart, but I just never
> imagined that any mail servers defaults would be wide open nowadays.

Did you miss this is some way?

http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html#configuration

In particular the step that says 'THIS IS IMPORTANT'. The difference, 
giving for granted that user do not read the documentation, is that if I 
close the relay I will receive tons of email saying (subjects in random 
order):

I cannot send message through XMail ...
What does relay denied means ...
My server does not work, can you configure it for me ...

So basically I have to decide who pays. Myself being personally annoied 
with those cr*p, or ppl that does not read the doc and gets open relay. 
I'd better stick my the current setup, what do you think?



- Davide


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