It is too bad we are forced to install a whole separate box to do what Imail
should do in the first place. I see no reason that the below are not part of
Imail.
Len, please let us know how this goes. We do not want to have to go this
far, but the spam is getting very thick here.
Sheldon
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Ten Forward Communications
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:57 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Getting Spammed to death...
>
> >We are in the process of reviewing Imail prior to purchase and this spam
> >issue is a major concern. Are you saying that Imail has no way to prevent
> >hackers from using our system as a way to send spam?
>
> I doubt anybody meant that, even if it was said.
>
> >What if Imail is set to not allow any Relay?
>
> As part of yr evaluation, please read the u/g in the section for SMTP
> Security. There are several techniques within Imail for defending against
> unauthorized relaying and spam.
>
> (I hope to have a first cut this weekend on a external, front-end defense
> machine for Imail based on FreeBSD and postfix that will do RBL, reverse
> lookups, RegEx filtering on headers, and anti-relaying before forwarding
> msgs to Imail. That ought to take care of everybody's concerns about some
> of those features being missing from Imail. The software is open source
> (free) and an old P200 with 32 or 64 megs of RAM and 3 or 4 gigs of disk
> ought to be sufficient.)
>
> Len
>
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