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How to Set Up and Configure an SMTP Virtual Server in Windows Server

Microsoft SMTP Service uses the Internet-standard SMTP to transport and deliver mail messages. Microsoft SMTP Service does not support the use of individual mailboxes; it places incoming messages in a Drop folder or it forwards them to other SMTP servers (if the message is addressed to a remote domain). This feature allows Microsoft SMTP Service [...]

How to Install and Configure SMTP Server on IIS 6.0

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service provided by IIS is a simple component for delivering outgoing e-mail messages. Delivery of a message is initiated by transferring the message to a designated SMTP server. Based on the domain name of the recipient e-mail address, the SMTP server initiates communications with a Domain Name System (DNS) [...]

How to install and Configure Dovecot Server in Ubuntu

Dovecot is a Mail Delivery Agent, written with security primarily in mind. It supports the major mailbox formats: mbox or Maildir. This section explain how to set it up as an imap or pop3 server.

Howto Create a DNSBL to Black Lists well known sources of SPAM

Black Lists are used in the context of email to define the IP addresses or netblocks of well known sources of SPAM. DNSBL defines a method of using standard DNS zone files to store such IP addresses. Standard DNS A RR queries are used to interrogate the black list which is organised as a reverse [...]

How to Extremely Powerful Linux Password Sniffer

Password Sniffer on Linux? Yep, we all need to be informed of passwords being sniffed out! I would not entail those details and cover specific issues of identifying your network securities as that would be large enough to be covered here and case to case basis. However, those two words are being mentioned here and [...]

How to Prevent the IIS SMTP Virtual Server from Relaying E-mail Messages

1) Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the Internet Information Services (IIS) snap-in. 2) Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server, right-click Default SMTP Virtual Server, and then click Properties. 3) Click the Access tab, and then under Access control, click Authentication. 4) Click to select either or both the Basic [...]

Fedora 9: How to change Sendmail SMTP Greeting Message

Each time a connection is made to sendmail, a greeting message is sent. By default, the greeting message contains current the following data: a. hostname, b. MTA agent name, c. sendmail version number d. and current date. RFC standards specifies that hostname greeting value should be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host, [...]

Sendmail: How To Queue Mails based Server Load Average

There has been a lot of web debates and arguments which STMP email server works better, safer and faster. Not to discredit any other SMTP armies on the field, but I do often hear people debating about how difficult for them to configure Sendmail on time. Probably sendmail should be repackaged with a little teaspoon [...]

How To Configure Sendmail for DNS-based Blacklisting

As soon as a host connects to SMTP port running a sendmail MTA, sendmail can also be configured to check and block IP addresses of incoming emails that are found to be listed on one or more DNS blacklists. This is possible by configuring sendmail directive dnsbl or DNS blacklists. During the SMTP handshake and [...]

How To Configure Sendmail For Queueing Delay Time

Normally, when delivering mails to destination host by any mail transfer agent (MTA), MTA keeps track of delivery details such as delivery item location, delivery time stamps, particular mail IDs, and delivery attempt status. If a problem occurs when sending mails, normally an attempt should be made a later time and MTAs should queue up [...]

How To Check Squid Logs for Possible Tunnelled STMP via HTTP Injection

If MTAs are gettings smarter and better each new stable releases, spammers are also keeping up with them. Email spammers tend to undergo adaptive learning process from these commonly laid out standard and advanced email defense and antispam mechanism. If antispam features of MTAs are getting more centralized, effective and efficient, email spammers too are [...]

How To Limit Outgoing Email Recipient Using Sendmail

This sendmail directive implements the number of allowed recipients of each email message. One signature of an email spammer is delivering an email to thousands and hundreds of recipients all at the same time. This sendmail directive prevents that. MAX_RCPTS_PER_MESSAGE If an email message comes with more than the allowed number of recipients per message, [...]

How To Limit Denial of Service Attacks to Sendmail

Whenever a sendmail receives SMTP request and connection from a remote host, it spawn’s a new copy of itself to deal with incoming mail messages. This approach makes it useful for sendmail to process multiple incoming mails simultaneously. However, the nature of linux application always comes with a trade off thing. This issue of spawning [...]

Checklist for SQL mail configuration

You must have a mail client (such as Microsoft Outlook) installed on the computer that runs SQL Server. Use the Corporate or Workgroup option for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not have the Corporate or Workgroup option). To select the option, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then double-click the Mail Services [...]