Re: [NTISP] SMTP Abuse Alert - And the workaround for it.

David Payer ( (no email) )
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:05:22 -0600

.. Check on the link below to see if your Mail Server has
>been hardcoded into this SMTP E-Mail verify Scanner. If it has, I would
>strongly suggest switching to Mailsite 3.2.0 or equivelent with all the
>security features to verify mail servers.

Unfortunately, Mailsite can't solve this. They come in from a valid address
and do HUNDREDS of queries for valid names on your server. Then they mail to
them later.

I wrote Sylvain at Vircom (VOPMail, uses the same engine that Mailsite does
and has improved it immensely www.vircom.com/vopmail) and he says the only
way to deal with this is to have a server timeout after a certain number of
invalid requests. None of the mail servers do that out of the box right now.

I would still encourage people to configure their smtp servers properly with
inverse addressing. I personally think this is the way to go.

David Payer
OMNI Internet
www.iowalink.com

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