Hello Davide, I read your opinion regarding this issue and read the whole thread. I strongly agree with the fact that it should be a closed relay by default (as most people obviously do), we all should be doing everything we can to decrease the ever-growing plague that is spam! However, I also understand your point-of-view, but am pretty sure that the proposal of including only the private networks would be sufficient to avoid at least 90% of the mails that you are worrying about!
10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 + Beside these, there is Microsoft's 169.254.0.0 range of default IP addresses that are allocated to systems when they are unable to obtain address from a DHCP server. If you include these three or four ranges as default configuration, you'll deal with most dummy users that don't care to read the docs... and provide a good basic configuration for a lot of situations in which XMail is used on the Internet! I really hope you'll reconsider your decision! :-) Best regards, Frederic ----- Original Message ----- From: Shiloh Jennings To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:19 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Default Open Relay > As maintainer of the XMail project I am afraid it is your duty to make it a > 'safe' server by default. The fact that '70% of the folks don't read docs' > only encourages a change in the defaults. > > Make it a closed relay. Set up mailfilters for your inbox, deleting any mail > with the subjects lines you mentioned above ;-) And the Net will get less > open relays per day. I must agree completely. Every email server should ship as a closed relay. XMail supports SMTP AUTH by default, so an end user could still relay simply by enabling SMTP AUTH in their email client software. Shipping XMail as an open relay only serves to create more of a problem (email server gets turned into a spam cannon; email server gets blocked by every major ISP). - 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]
