Scott Parks wrote in a message to all:
 SP> I suspect our Mercury SMTP is being abused since I'm seeing
 SP> lots of passthrough mail in the logs.   The boys in NZ say
 SP> that is very hard to control Mercury and suggest we
 SP> reconfigure to have all mail come through Sendmail on the
 SP> HP3000 at our district office.
 SP> Before we try that I'm wondering if there is anything else
 SP> out there that might work locally for us.   I realize Linux
 SP> might work but am not sure I'm ready for that.  I have a
 SP> copy of MS Proxy Server but don't know how that might work with
 SP> mail. 
 SP> Any ideas?
Linux would be a very good solution.  You are going to need its packet 
filtering capability anyway, if you are being attacked.  You will probably 
find that the Debian distribution installs the most paranoid security model 
by default, so you might try that first.
 
-- Mike
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