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Re: OT: how do You protect an email relay service?



On Sat, 30 May 2009, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Good day.
> 
> 
> If You use an email relay service, how do You protect it: VMs, iptables
> connections rate limit, ... ?
> 
> Personally, I have a problem with email sending authorization - how I can
> separate the users that have not their boxes on our service and therefore I can
> ban their trials to pick up a password - I can not reduce it even to the local
> net IPs bt iptables - as port 25 is used for not only for sending our own users
> but for receiving it for the local users - as I understand.

Consider using port 587 for submission. Allow only authenticated
sessions on port 587, and port 25 use only for comunication with
other MTAs.

see RFC 2746, 3.1

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Regards,
Paweł Zuzelski


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