I had a lot of similar problems .. Being an ISP, locking down the open relays did not protect from spammers subscribing to the service just to unload a few volleys of SPAM. For the past few months I have been using Declude's HiJack and it has eliminated outbound SPAM completely. A fantastic product at less than $300.
******************************** Ed McNichols, MCP Archiventure, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.archiventure.net Tel. 570.253.1986 Fax. 570.253.4343 ******************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [imail] SPAMED! >This kind of off topic, but our mail servers are being bombarded by spamm >mail. Does anybody know what is the best way to stop this? In the SMTP >Security tab I have set the mail relay option to "Relay for local users >only". I would appreciate any help. There are two very different types of "bombarded by spam". One is actual spam that you are receiving (IE you retrieve your mail and find a bunch of spam), the other is relayed spam (where a spammer is sending out their mail for free using your mail servers). I'm guessing yours is the second case, since you're talking about the relay settings. In that case, you are an "open relay", and you need to close it. To not be an open relay, you can either use IMail's "Relay for addresses" (in which case you would enter a list of "safe" IP addresses that your users may come from; anyone not coming from those safe IPs would need to use SMTP AUTH), or "No mail relay" (which really means that everyone must use SMTP AUTH). Note that relay setting apply only to outgoing E-mail, so no matter what your settings are, your users will still be able to get mail. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by IAS, an Archiventure Company] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by IAS, an Archiventure Company] ______________________________________________________________________ The HKSI-IMail Admin List is hosted by........ Humankind Systems, Inc. Questions, Comments or Complain like Hell.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Message Archive... http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.4 To Manage your Subscription......... http://humankindsystems.com/lists
