I would force the free users to grab a freeware SMTP tool and build another hardened SMTP tool on another box. Some one is sniffing your network or just being outright mischevious.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ashik Hasim Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SPAM Problem 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! Regards Ashik Hasim ----- Original Message ----- From: R. Scott Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SPAM Problem > > >I have deleted the account. But how many accounts do I delete? There are so > >many addresses that are coming from this. When I delete the user creates > >another account and sends again. What can I do? Please help me. > > So does this mean that you offer free E-mail service? > > That's a whole separate issue. If you are offering free E-mail service, > you need to have some controls in place to prevent the users from sending > out spam. Being an open relay means that you are offering free service to > spammers (any spammer can use your mailserver to send mail to the world), > but you can not an open relay (meaning that only people you authorize can > use your mailserver to send out mail). However, if you authorize anyone to > use your mailserver, then spammers can use it. > > -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)] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
