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> Some servers are a reseller style system, so your not in control of all the
> users. This is the ONLY way to do it and it will stop the network being used
> for spam
It is not the only way, even if you write it in capitals. You provide
documentation on how to send email (ie the relay's details) and if they do
anything else, a polite REJECT from the firewall should help them along.
That is (IMO) the best way to do it. Redirect is a poor substitute for
instructions.
Redirect will work in many (most?) cases, but it will confuse the clients in
others. Don't mistake it for a perfect solution. I'm sure some of us have
tunnelled around such draconian blocks when we needed to.
Please don't think that that alone will stop the network being used for
spam. If customers can send email from web scripts, one of them will put a
buggy script up and a spammer will use it as a relay. Unless you do
something a bit cleverer on the server to monitor it, you'll not be able to
block it. You should also block port 25 incoming apart from your mail
server, else you'll be used as a two-step relay and the official mail server
will be dropped into the blackholes too.
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MJR