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Re: MS Exchange is allowing our site to be used as a spam server

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From: John Knappers
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
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In the firewal restictions of your router, you can deny all packets  trying
to access any port, not orriginating off your local subnets.
-- 
John Knappers
email: john.knappers@nospam.cyberjunky.demon.nl
(remove "nospam" before replying).

Wesley Peace <Wesley.Peace@ncons.com.nospam> wrote in article
<6dfm1j$h9n$1@news1.mnsinc.com>...
> If you are not using POP3 or IMAP4 (with Exchange Server 5.5) clients, Go
to
> the Internet Mail Service Object in the Exchange Administrator and select
> properties and then the Routing Tab.  Turn off SMTP rerouting.
> 
> Additional functionality was added with Exchange Server 5.5. You can read
> the readme file for detailed information on how to configure the UCE
feature
> if you have that product.
> 
>
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> Wesley.Peace@ncons.com
> Microsoft BackOffice/Exchange MVP
> 
> He who has a why can endure any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche
> 
> Brett Graham wrote in message <6desa8$8t7$1@flex.news.pipex.net>...
> >We have recently been getting reports in our log files about outgoing
> >messages.  The messages are not originating from our site and there are
> >loads them!
> >
> >It seems that anyone can connect to our SMTP port and send messages to
who
> >they like.
> >
> >There must be a setting in MS Exchange to stop people, outside of our
site,
> >from using our server to send email.  Can anyone tell me how to do it? 
MS
> >Exchange is a jungle as far as tabbed dialog boxes go and Help is
rubbish.
> >
> >Any help would be highly appreciated
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Brett Graham
> >REMOVE-O-SPAMbgraham@byline.co.uk
> >P.S.  If emailing, remember to remove the REMOVE-O-SPAM bit, you'll be
> >surprised how many people don't.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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From: "John Knappers" <john.knappers@nospam.cyberjunky.demon.nl>
Subject: Re: MS Exchange is allowing our site to be used as a spam server
Date: 1998/03/04
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