--On Tuesday, October 4, 2005 14:06 -0600 Larry Raab <lraab@???>
wrote:
> Well I am still getting a lot of traffic.
Through port 25? Then it isn't blocked by a firewall. Maybe the traffic is
so high that the connection is timing out? Could it just be that your users
have email addresses that just do get loads of spam?
Anyway, to reduce the spam, you should check out the documentation on ACLs
and DNSBL.
> I have taking down EXIM for now until I can get some help. What info
> would I have to provide to you fine people to help me decide if I am
> configured as an open relay.
>
> I am sorry for the "n00b" questions I just am under the gun as an
> "emergency" project.
>
> Thank you.
>
>>>> fv+exim@??? 10/4/2005 1:55 PM >>>
> On 4 Oct 2005 at 13:46, Larry Raab wrote about
> "Re: [exim] New users to EXIM needin":
>
>| What result am I looking for on this test?
>
> Once you unblock incoming port 25, you'll see the SMTP session(s)
> being run to try to get your server to accept and relay a test
> message. You want to see that all 20 or so attempts are rejected,
> and the last few lines look like:
>
> Tested host banner: 220 (your server's welcome text here...)
> System appeared to reject relay attempts
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> BTW, if you are still seeing too much load when your firewall is
> blocking incoming connections from the Internet, obviously something
> else must be going on...
>
> - Fred
>
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