anonymous access allowed

[Jente]

Hi all,

Our mailserver has been set up to allow anonymous access. I think that is the reason it is listed in a few blacklists on the net.

If I disable anonymous access, no external mail is sent.

I'm using exchange 2000.

does someone have any idea?

 

[Davetoo]

Assuming you're talking about the Properties on your SMTP server (since your post was so vague), then yes, you must allow anonymous access under the Access Control section. You prevent relaying through the Relay Restrictions, and it's here you want to limit it to your IP addys.

If you don't allow anonymous connections, then other email servers won't be able to connect and send email to your server unless they first login to it, and that's not an option for 99.9999% of the Exchange servers out there.

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