re: pop-before-smtp why I use.

[Josh Cason]

When I built the server after doing tons of research. (the old servers  
ran sendmail and I didn't have a hand in setting them up.)  
pop-before-smtp worked great for customers outside the network. If I  
disabled pop-before-smtp they would not work. Just internal users. So  
without any changes to the outside world in there e-mail clients. As  
long as they had a proper username / password it worked great. My  
e-mail server worked great for 1 year before (I assume this new type  
of spam) starting showing up in my server. Now for about 1 year I have  
been adding and trying different configurations to get ride of it.  
Seems to be a partial open relay. I don't know what it is caused by  
and I'm trying my best to spot or give all you helpfull people  
information needed to sqash this. I can't thank you enough once again  
for help. In this area I'm alone and don't have any help. Most people  
suguested paying a service to host e-mail and I'm like that is stupid.  
But now with my spare time involved in this. I question that. But I  
have two problems with spam and this is a pretty big problem. If I  
could squash it. Then my e-mail server would be close to perfect. Not  
perfect because I was the only one knowning linux and setup other  
linux projects that work great. Like routers, and what not. Just not  
so good at e-mail.

Thanks,
Josh


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