[cobalt-users] RaQ3i - Sendmail upgrade, general

["Dave Reid" <daver1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All;

I have a some questions and a request resulting form a major meltdown
with our SMTP and SPAM! We were getting so many spam's relaying through
it was shutting down our SMTP server, this was a result of having added
yahoo.com and yahoo.ca to the allowed Relays because of some serious
whining from a couple of clients who had friends using a yahoo email
address. It took me a little while to figure out the cause, I knew it
was spam killing the server but did not know what to do about it, I
tried updating sendmail, blocking out huge blocks of IP #'s manually in
the hosts.deny file, but nothing worked until I removed yahoo.com and
yahoo.ca from the allowed relay section.

Questions & Requests
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1) Is there a problem with the way SMTP is functioning on our server.