Finally, someone who is not an smtp nazi. My policy is as follows: 1) Of my servers a few are designated as MX hosts. These require a valid FQDN. This holds someone responsible for the mail my servers relay. 2) My other servers will only relay mail if it originates or terminates locally. Marcus R. Williams, Jr. security@tomco.net ISP Programmer / Engineer On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Deepak Jain wrote:

I didn't see anything about this in the archives, but as far as implementing a reasonably friendly anti-spam policy (http://www.abest.com/~kai/spamshield.html) without forbidding relaying entirely, is there a consensus opinion?

Thanks,

Deepak