On 4/6/2010 9:11 AM, Josh Cason wrote:
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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