huge mail going throw my mail server how to protect

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Apr 6 21:34:52 UTC 2012


On 04/07/2012 12:44 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 09:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> So, it would seem that this system is going to be accepting incoming mails from the
>> internet for at least one domain......  In that case it would be bad advice to simply
>> close port 25.
>
> Not if he uses smtpauth on port 587.  Granted, telling him only to accept mail from
> 127.0.0.0 was a tad excessive, but I was in the mood for a bit of overkill.  <snicker>

You seem to have 0 knowledge of how server to server email works.  Please do some
work to understand what actually transpires before you advise people.

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