>I do give free email service. But I have removed mail relay and has set the
>maximum recipient per message to 20. Still this happens!

Yes, that will happen.  If you offer people free mail service, spammers 
will gladly take advantage of it.  Note that the "Maximum recipients per 
message" setting of 20 doesn't mean that they can only send 20 E-mails per 
day.  It just means that they can only send to 20 recipients at one 
time.  That's the "standard" amount that most spammers will send.  Even if 
you set that to 1, spammers can still send their mail through your server 
(although it would be slower).

Are you telling me that you never thought that a spammer might use your 
free mail service?  Any time a company gives something away for free, 
people can abuse it.  For example, our http://www.DNSstuff.com site gives 
away free DNS-related lookups, and occasionally people abuse it, so we have 
rate limiting that will help prevent people from abusing it.

In your case, you need to realize there is no "magic" solution.  Anti-relay 
settings prevent "bad" people from using your mailserver to send mail to 
the world -- but if you tell IMail that your users are "good", the 
anti-relay settings won't help you.

                                                    -Scott
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