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Speaking of spam,I am getting spam where the return address is from my own bbs,but when I look up the account name there is no such account.
To others it looks like I am allowing spammers to send out but I am not.
Anyway to stop this?

banjaxster wrote:Speaking of spam,I am getting spam where the return address is from my own bbs,but when I look up the account name there is no such account.
To others it looks like I am allowing spammers to send out but I am not.
Anyway to stop this?

Make sure the smtp relay setting is off. You can then use keys to control who can send smtp email.

Joe

banjaxster wrote:Speaking of spam,I am getting spam where the return address is from my own bbs,but when I look up the account name there is no such account.
To others it looks like I am allowing spammers to send out but I am not.
Anyway to stop this?

shut down relay, or use the smtpblok.txt file

I do have relay off and have smtp outgoing allowed with a key only.
The problem is they are not sending from my bbs,they have my bbs as their
e-mail address in the return address though.
Example is exam@cedarvalleybbs.com as their return address but there is no such account.
It makes me look like I'm allowing spammers to others but I am not.
How they are doing it I don't know

banjaxster wrote:I do have relay off and have smtp outgoing allowed with a key only.
The problem is they are not sending from my bbs,they have my bbs as their
e-mail address in the return address though.
Example is exam@cedarvalleybbs.com as their return address but there is no such account.
It makes me look like I'm allowing spammers to others but I am not.
How they are doing it I don't know

I think their spam program has your email address. it then makes up a fake account name at your domain so you will look at the email and not erase the message.

JOe