Kurt A. Butzin, DDS
President
Molarnet Technologies, Inc. (An Internet Solutions Provider)
kurt@molar.net
http://www.molar.net
kurt@butzin.com
http://www.butzin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Kerr <john.kerr@peel.com>
To: NTISP@emerald.iea.com <NTISP@emerald.iea.com>
Date: Friday, December 05, 1997 2:37 PM
>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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