RE: [IMail Forum] CONFIRMED - ETRN Mail Queuing does NOTfunction with spam protection

[Mark McDonald]

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NO KIDDING, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK WITH ETRN.  THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF MY MESSAGE.  IMAIL DOES ***NOT*** SCAN THE ACCEPT.TXT FILE WHEN PROCESSING MAIL RECEIVED FOR AN ETRN CUSTOMER WHEN 'RELAY FOR LOCAL HOSTS' IS ON.

 

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:14 PM
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] CONFIRMED - ETRN Mail Queuing does NOTfunction with spam protection

This file can be used with the Relay for Local Hosts
Only and Relay for Local Users Only options.

What part of that is so confusing?  Pretty self-explanatory to me...

Jeff Underwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:02 PM
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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] CONFIRMED - ETRN Mail Queuing does NOTfunction with spam protection

Len,

 

    You didn't make sense towards the end: "That's not very fair when it's based on your erroneous belief vs what is written clearly in the doc", even the Tech guy at IPSwitch understood it the same way I did.  The documentation is NOT very clear on that.  The Relay Mail for Local Hosts is not 100% spam-proof, but it does filter out 99% of the spammers looking for a wide-open mail system.

 

-Mark McDonald
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-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] CONFIRMED - ETRN Mail Queuing does NOTfunction with spam protection

talked to a developer and confirmed IMail CANNOT and WILL NOT support ETRN
if any Spam protection is on, except for "Accept by IP Address".

ETRN is a special case of "relay for addresses".

So if you have yours set to "Relay for Local Hosts Only"

totally useless as serious anti-spam tactic since no msg headers can be trusted, they are easily spoofable.

Mark, I know you know the above. I'm just repeating for new lurkers who might get the false impression the "relay for locals" is a reliable anti-spam tactic.

and using ETRN,

"want to use ETRN"

you're SOL,
your ETRN will NOT function, even if you add them to the ACCEPT.TXT file,
which I believed was the entire reason it's there.

ETRN is nothing but, is exactly relay for addresses, ie, Imail relays to the ip address in NT hosts file even without the ip address being only and without receiving the ETRN command.

Imail u/g page 116:

Using the accept.txt file. The accept.txt file lets you name remote
hosts and users that you want the IMail Server to accept as "local"
hosts and users. This file can be used with the Relay for Local Hosts
Only and Relay for Local Users Only options.

Yet another great "feature" of IMail.

That's not very fair when it's based on your erroneous belief vs what is written clearly in the doc.

Len