Re: Solved: Help: my PO is open relay

[sue@xxxxxxxxx (Sue Chester)]

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 04:19  PM, David Bergkvist wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Thank you all for you help in my problem. The open relay is now 
> closed but since the problem had more than one level there were more 
> to it than just settings in PO.

The problem turned out to be that one of the accounts was using 
POP-before-SMTP and was popping continuously from a remote location. 
POP-before-SMTP opens a relay window for accounts for a settable 
amount of time.  The relay database testers used that login account 
name to send relay through the system, and they were able to do so. 
That's why the system got put into the open relay database.

POP-before-SMTP is designed for peripatetic users, who need to send 
mail from various locations.  When used this way, there is little or 
no risk of some unauthorized person sending mail through your system 
as that account name, but for an account that needs 100% accessing, 
or if you have to POP that account all the time, it's better to turn 
POP-before-SMTP off, and use SMTP-Authentication.

Sue






> It's now late here in Sweden and the last 48 hours has only offerd 
> me about 4 hours of sleep so I'm off to bed. I'll put together a 
> report for you all in the morning about what the solution was for me.
>
> A special thanks to Sue at Tenon for her help in testing out the solution!
>
> Yours,
>
> /David Bergkvist
>
>
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