Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

Thu Feb 3 15:05:09 UTC 2005

Hi!

>> One additional thing that I think wasnt mentioned in the article -
>> Make sure your MXs (inbound servers) are separate from your outbound
>> machines, and that the MX servers dont relay email for your dynamic IP
>> netblock. Some other trojans do stuff like getting the ppp domain name

> That, on the other hand, gets you into trouble with rather stupid Spam
> filters, that only accept mails from a server, if that server is also
> MX for the senders domain.
>
> Yes, this is stupid, but that does not change the fact, that these
> setups are out there.

Start using authenticated SMTP for this.

Bye,
Raymond.