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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Is there any way I can disable spammers from using my smail server to : distribute spam? : From the logs it appears that someone is sending mail from a : compuserve account that then propagates into a large batch of mails to : address all over the world. : The original post from compuserve and the resultong hundreds of : outgoings all have the same ID. Is this due to BSMTP? : If I add a : -bsmtp : to the pipe: section of the transports file will I break anything? : Is there some way that I can restrict use of the "|" thingy to local : users only? ie mail that originates on the server, as against mail : from outside (that is compuserve)? : Is there a resource out on the Internet that will point me in the : right direction? : Wot a lot of questions! : John Foster : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

