Thanks Bill. That was it. I didn't have EnableAuthSMTP-POP set to 0. And the only open relay address i have enabled is my local IP. I guess spammers must be spoofing or something... Thanks for the help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: SMTP Auth
> > Working with the files that come with the distribution you want to do > the following: > Empty smtprelay.tab > In server.tab put > "EnableAuthSMTP-POP3"<tab>"0" > > That's it. Anyone or thing that tries to send mail to your server that > isn't to a local domain will have to send authentication. > > >From what you have listed that you did you want to get rid of > "Smtp-Config-MyLiveIP" "mail-auth", empty the smtpauth.tab and do the > above and you should be where you want to be. > > If you set EnableAuthSMTP-POP3 to 1 (or leave it out as default is 1) it > means that anyone that has successfully POPed mail from the server in > the last few minutes can send mail from the same client IP to non-local > domains without authenticating. > > Bill > > >---------- > >From: Jim Frank[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:02 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [xmail] SMTP Auth > > > >Hi guys, > > > >Kind of a stupid question here but I'm very confused. I came in today to > >find some 2000 messages about mail undeliverable to yahoo. I figured spam. > >So I started doing some checks and it looks like anyone can send mail from my > >smtp server with no Auth. This is not good. I want my system to be seutp in > >this fashion: email from anywhere in the world can come into my users, my > >users can send email to anywhere in the world. However, I don't want anyone > >in the world to be able to freely use my smtp server to send mail so if > >someone can explain the essentials of setting up smtp auth. Here's what > >I've tried: > > > >in the server.tab > > > >"Smtp-Config-MyLiveIP" "mail-auth" > > > >then I pushed all my users login and passwords into smtpauth.tab. > > > >This gave me the auth I wanted in that people could not longer send mail > >without logging in first, but one other problem began now...every time a smtp > >server tried to communicate with me, it'd get an error message about how it's > >access was deined. In other words, I could no longer recieve email from > >anywhere outside my LAN. > > > >I have only my own IP mask in smtprelay.tab and as far as smtp.ipmap.tab, I > >have that set with "0.0.0.0" "0.0.0.0" "ALLOW" > > > >If anyone can provide any suggestions as to how to get my server where i want > >it to be, I'd appreciate it a lot. thanks. > > > >Jim > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
