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Re: [cobalt-users] FAQ: email relaying.



okay
even though its not dns....

I notice the largest problem or most asked question is, "I can receive or send mail from domain blar.com....."  usually this is because they havent set up the address in the relay field...
the big isssue is most people dont want to block potential email that they will receive...but they dont want to be open for attacks either...
doh...now we have a catch22   best course??
has anyone considered getting ahold of a utility to monitor and log all incoming and outgoing email relays, and if it sees 400 emails coming in in x amount of time it flags it and blocks it??
note the beautifull laymans terms there, never was a technical writer...anywho this question came up in my head the other day after watching email traffic on a friends network shoot up :::well we found the problem...god I hate spammers:::  so I've got a simple enough answer

any body know of a good utility?

Jeff Lasman wrote:

Dom Latter wrote:

> Seeing as this comes up so often, and I've just delved into the
> subject on behalf of a Qube2 owner I thought I'd get my understanding
> of the problem into the archives...
>
> Comments please, particularly from the DNS expert(s)...