It's not your perfect solution, but it does some good.
Hope Post.Office has that feature.
Btw, NTMAIL has JUCE. People claim it stopped 99% of all the SPAMMING going
thru their servers.
- Danny Sinang
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> From: John D. Kerr <john.kerr@peel.com>
> To: NTISP@emerald.iea.com
> Subject:
> Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 8:35 AM
>
> Email Relaying Restriction
>
> Over the past few days, our systems have been used as a relay host for
> subscribers of other services (in the most recent case - CompuServe) to
> forward out hundreds of Spam messages. This action has put a tremendous
> load on the servers, and generated hundreds of failed attempt message to
> the administrator (me!).
>
> We are running the latest release of Post.Office (v3.1.2) and it offers
> features to block/eliminate this type of activity (at least they claim
this
> in their adverts). I have reviewed the options available, and there are
> many - but I have not quite figured out the best solution for our setup.
>
> What I think is the best solution, which I think would solve my problem
is
> as follows:
> - Allow mail from ANY outside domains to flow freely into domains hosted
on
> our mail server. This would mean blocking any mail not for local domains.
> - Allow mail from ANY IP addresses on my local domain to flow out freely.
>
> This sounds like a simple solution to me, but I cannot figure out how (or
> even if this is possible) to do with Post.Office. Has anyone any
experience
> in this type of configuration with Post.Office?
>
> My second question, also around Post.Office, is whether I can have all
> messages which go to the Mail Administrator (error messages) go into a
NUL
> device?? I really don't want to have to look at all the error messages on
> the Mail Administrator account daily, nor do I want to be forced to clear
> out message from the "Deferred Mail", "Handle Error Messages" system
> administrator option.
>
> Any advice on these situations would be appreciated.
>
> John
> john.kerr@peel.com
>
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