Mail Submission Protocol

Wed Apr 21 14:18:03 UTC 2010

>>Inside customers, we have not changed to force port 587 and
>>authentication for email clients, but the topic has come up in
>>discussions.  This won't of course, stop spammers if they are hijacking
>>the users local email client settings.

How best would you stop spammers hijacking local users email clients

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Claudio Lapidus [mailto:clapidus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:49 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Mail Submission Protocol

Hello all,

At our ISP operation, we are seeing increasing levels of traffic in our
outgoing MTA's, presumably due to spammers abusing some of our
subscribers'
accounts. In fact, we are seeing connections from IPs outside of our
network
as many as ten times of that from inside IPs. Probably all of our
customers
are travelling abroad and sending back a lot of postcards, but just in
case... ;-)

So we are considering ways to further filter this traffic. We are
evaluating
implementation of MSA through port 587. However, we never did this and
would
like to know of others more knowledgeable of their experiences. The
question
is what best practices and stories do you guys have to share in this
regard.
Also please let me know if you need additional detail.

thanks in advance,
cl.