On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 22:15 -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:40:13 -0500 > Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> articulated: > > > Abide by what edict? Email marked as containing a virus is simply > > rejected. If a spammer or bot wishes to send out viruses from my > > network, they'll have to bypass my MTA to do it, which is more > > difficult since very few machines on my network have permission to > > send out via port 25. > > You should be using SMTP Authentication, irregardless of what port is > being accessed which would stop virtually all unauthorized > transmissions. If you don't know how to do that, ask or Google it. I am > really interested in how a Spammer is getting access to your network to > begin with. It sounds like your network is anything but secure. > You what? In the last case I had a problem, it was a networked pc infected with a trojan spewing spam out. Just *how* does SMTP Auth stop this?
Your lack of knowledge is matched only by your inability to spell ( no irregardless is *not* a word ), or to put your clock right. Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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