[TriLUG] Access for sending mail through smtp-server.nc.rr.com

[John Broome]

Spain, Jamil wrote:
> Hello all.. 
>  
> I have an exchange server 5.5. running from home off my cable modem.. 
[snip]
> 2 weeks, and I didn't yet shutdown open relay.  well it seems someone on
> the internet found it would relay mail and was using it to send out spam
> ( quite a few messages ) last week... Of course, the exchange server was
> configured to accept mail and forward mail to be sent out to
> smtp-server.nc.rr.com .. 
>  
> well I now get those outbound error notices that they cut off smtp
> privileges from my 24.x.x.x IP.  once they started rejecting sending, I
> received over 80,000 spam messages that are currently clogged into my
> postmaster mailbox for all of last week.. 


<Nelson>Ha Ha</Nelson>