From:	Brian Moore airionis@*****.com
Subject:	SMTP Server
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:12:32 -0800 (PST)

---"Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark.imbriaco@*****.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The question is, do you mind if I use this server for personal
replys to
> > ShadowRN items? I've got a seperate mail account set up for
messages
> > from my family and stuff, but I've always done everything ShadowRN
> > related from this account.
>
> Yes, I mind. Please do not use that server. It should have relaying
> turned off, but the custom software we use for virtual domains
relies on
> a copy of sendmail that is broken. *sigh* Yet another item on my
to-do
> list.

Be prepared to have your machine used to relay spam. I didn't think I
had to worry, till the email machine I'm responsible for at work got
hit. I fixed it up by adding appropriate rules to sendmail, and that
stopped the problem. I also put some legalese in the sendmail
connection banner just so we can sue anyone that manages to get in.
But while it was happening (mostly over one weekend), the machine
crashed a few times because of the load. My machine was used to relay
a couple different spam messages, so the spammers may have passed the
address around among themselves. ISPs were particularly unhelpful
trying to stop it. Fix your system before spammers make you. You
don't want your site known as a spam relay.
=Brian Moore, GAMER, Unix admin, DB admin, Network
admin, programmer, father of 3, and very busy.

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