Re: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:12:07 -0600
Mark et al,
There is an excellent page at <http://anti-relay.unicom.com/anti-relay>
regarding how to stop the use of your mail server as a relay.
I hope this information is helpful to you.
Regards,
Larry
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>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:59:42 -0000
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>Hi,
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>We have just been used as a smtp relay for one of the US spam companies and
>it crashed one of our mail servers, the service remained unaffected as our
>backup systems took over but we use sendmail and I cannot seem to find out
>how to stop us from being used in this fashion.
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>I know this is not the correct list for this sort of thing but I need some
>expert advice as our software suppliers don't know how to stop it.
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>As a general warning to everyone out there we need to protect our systems
>from these people who are starting to use us all to deliver their mail for
>them without paying us a penny.
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>Please someone help,
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>Mark.
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Larry Vaden 903-813-4500
Internet Texoma, Inc. 800-697-0206
Member ISP/C, TISPA Fax 903-868-8551
