I have an issue with relaying, here goes: first we have one server which is our main webserver (www) which sits at another location, and the other in house (home). The www server has been recently getting hammered my smtp (spam servers) connecting to this server, drops its garbage, but heres the thing, when it drops the garbage the garbage then gets relayed to our home server which then sends the garbage out to the world…I’m not 100% sure how to stop this, i’ve gone through the configuration documents for relaying but i’m sure i’m doing something wrong, can someone help me out on this?
Currently its dropping so many garbage(spam) to our home server and its just bringing things to a crawl, our ISP has recently been giving us flak for not stopping the relay…what should i do with the configuration document to prevent this?
We have a very similar setup where I work. All mail comes through an external server to be delivered to our home server. One of the differences that I see though is that our home server does not connect directly to the internet. External mail is relayed through the external server to the internet.
As the previous posted noted, you need to shut down relay on both of your servers. Here is a good article from Lotus regarding the subject. It has more information that you are probably looking for at this moment but the bottom of the article applies to your situation.
On our external server we have * in both of the deny fields to eliminate it as a relay host. A few fields down is the field to exclude addresses from anti-relay checking, we have the IP of our home server in that field so it can relay messages to the internet.
First, stop your www server from being an open relay. You can do this by going to the server configuration document, Router/SMTP>Restrictions & Controls>SMTP Inbound Controls>Inbound Relay Controls. In fact, you could even turn the SMTP listener off on the server document.
Next, decide what mail needs to get from your www server to your home server. Make sure they are not in the same DNN and will therefore require connection documents to route mail between them. Is the spam going between your two servers over SMTP or Notes mail?
i would accept the earlier answer except for slight variation 1)stop or undo the relay config setting in both the config document if any
have all the person document to have home /mail server field to have your home server’s name and not the public servers …if you have any mail files on the public server then move those to home server
3)configure smtp listner task on the public server document
4)config smtp routing task for both public as well the home server
Thanks for getting back to me so quick. Well as mentioned, the spam server connects to server1, it doesn’t drop any spam on this server but it automatically gets relayed over to our mailserver (server2), from the looks of it on server one on the console it sees the spam server connect, then it proceeds to relay the messages(spam) via notes mail.
Btw, where can i find the SMTP listner in the server document? or do you mean the notes.ini?