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Chris, 1) If YOU'RE sending the e-mail, you're not relaying. Send-on-behalf-of isn't the same as relaying. 2) The password isn't required for connection to the SMTP server, but if you attempt to send an e-mail to an address that isn't local to that server before you enter the password you'll receive a "relaying denied" message. So any "normal" inbound messages aren't affected by the password scheme, just relayed messages. -Walden ------------ Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516)627-3800 x11 WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com http://www.TechSoftInc.com -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bipes [mailto:chris.bipes@cross-check.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:26 AM To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net You really want to lock down e-mail, then get a product like Norton Anti-Virus Corporate edition. It comes with a SMTP server that accepts all incoming e-mail and scans it for viruses. It then forwards to your real SMTP server. No incoming mail can get to your real server thru the fire wall. Your real server sends mail directly to whom ever from whom ever. Hey we send e-mail to our customers customers on behalf of our customers. Are we spamming? NO, we do this as a service for our customers, sending confirmations of checks being accepted and funds being electronically processed telling the consumer to write the check in to their check register and void the physical check. If we turn off relaying, we would have to add thousands of domains to our mail server, with 20-50 changes a day. Sometimes there are business reasons for using mail relaying. But then, with two SMTP servers, one can stop the public from relaying off their server. If I require a password on my SMTP server, how will the public get e-mail to me? Is the password only required for sending outbound e-mail so I can still receive inbound e-mail? Christopher K. Bipes mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com Operations & Network Mgr mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com CrossCheck, Inc. http://www.cross-check.com 6119 State Farm Drive Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102 Rohnert Park CA 94928 Fax: 707 586-1884 -----Original Message----- From: Brad Jensen [mailto:brad@elstore.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:49 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net Then POP3 doesn't require a paswword for logon, it's outside the RFC? The RFC should require a password for SMTP. I do suggest that IP filtering be done for SMTP with the SMTP server, not in the firewall. If your SMTP server supports it. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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