RE: Filtering for SPAM mailing

Brian Elfert (brian@citilink.com)
Thu, 15 May 1997 12:57:09 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Stephen C. West-Fisher wrote:

> >If you've got more than one server, configure your main mail server to
> deny all SMTP connections from outside your own domain.
>
> This doesn't really work well for an ISP. This also disallows the ISP's
> customers to access their own email from another ISP.

Mail is picked up via POP3 or IMAP generally, not SMTP. If a user wants
to use another ISP for dialup, fine, but they should use that ISP's SMTP
server to send outbound mail.

Brian