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Re: System intrusion and detection

by Saifi Khan-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, sridhar Reddy wrote:

> Hi Saifi,
>
> My problem is spam is generated from my email system from the pool of
> address allocated.
>
> Even though we do not use all the IP addresses  form the pool of addresses
> it specifically generating  spam form one of my system and ISP complained
> that he is receiving lot of complaints regarding this as a result he has
> blocked SMTP port as result of which i am missing out any cleint emails.
>
>
> Any help will be greatly apprecieated.
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar Reddy
>

Hi Sridhar:

SMTP relay is what makes the email systems tick and so all SMTP
servers need to accept SMTP requests.

However, what you can do, is configure your SMTP server to use
'SMTP AUTH with STARTTLS'.

Hope this helps.


thanks
Saifi.

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