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Securing Your Server: Shut the Door on Spam
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| Date: |
March 29, 2004
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| Type: |
Information
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Description: |
If your organization handles lots of Internet traffic every
day, both to and from your clients and customers. The settings of your network
servers may open your system to misuse.
If your mail server maintains an open door to the Internet, known as an open relay,
someone could access it and pass unsolicited commercial email (spam) through it.
And if your proxy server is open, a spammer could use it to connect to your
mail server and send bulk email anonymously. Not only can these abuses overload
your server, they also could damage your organization's reputation. That's
because it will appear that your system sent the spam.
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| Recommended Action: |
Read the entire article on Open Relays and Open Proxy Servers
at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/secureyourserver.htm.
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From:
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The Federal Trade Commission
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