[cobalt-users] Re:Relaying denied / POP before relay

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:35 PM -0500 1/16/02, Steven Young is rumored to have typed:

> This
> may sound crazy but believe it or not, there is a semi-rational reason for
> this!

   There is _never_ a rational reason for running an open relay. If you
aren't running POP before SMTP, you should turn SMTP OFF, since other than an
internal network, there's no _way_ to tell what IPs are users on your machine
and what IPs are bad guys sending spam to the rest of the world.

> I get the following
> lines appearing in my /var/log/maillog every 15 minutes.

   (*sigh*) Please do an archive search. This log crisis comes up about every
third day when someone new actually looks at the log files.

         Charlie (who is as anti-spam as it's possible to be, and thinks
                   the insecure SMTP should be eliminated completely as a
                   protocol)