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

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From: Terje Hellemo
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:00
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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.


Upgrade to 5.5. In 5.5 you can tell IMS which IP-net(s) to accept outgoing
messages from (your net).

\\Terje
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From: "Terje Hellemo" <nospam_terje@hellemo.priv.no>
Subject: Re: MS Exchange is allowing our site to be used as a spam server
Date: 1998/03/02
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