On Thursday, March 11, 2004, 09:26:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unless I'm missing something. What I think the complaint is, is that simply > putting his server's SMTP address into outlook and either an existing e-mail > address or alias and he is able to send an e-mail to everyone on his domain.
The "From:" address is irrelevant. Its an e-mail being *delivered* to a mailbox on that server. > So a former employee could use his address book, his old SMTP settings and > an existing e-mail address and spam all of the current employees - without > having to authenticate. Absolutely. > I think I have seen this when people set up their outlook without checking > "my server requires authentication". They are able to send e-mail to > everyone in my domain and they only find out something is wrong when they > try to send mail to someone outside of the domain and they then get the "550 > not a gateway" error. Exactly, its the difference between final delivery and relaying. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh 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/
