Understanding SMTP authentication and securing your IBM Lotus Domino 8 server from spam

Level: Intermediate

08 Sep 2009

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Learn how the SMTP protocol and SMTP authentication process works to secure your IBM Lotus Domino® 8 server from spam.

In this article

• Introduction
  
  
• Overview of the SMTP process
  
  
• Over of SMTP authentication
  
  
• Determing whether Lotus Domino is open relay or closed relay
  
  
• Making Lotus Domino a closed-relay server
  
  
• Enabling SMTP authentication on the Domino server
  
  
• SMTP authentication between Lotus Domion and Outlook clients
  
  
• Avoiding address spoofing when relaying mail from authenticated users
  
  
• Inbound anti-relay settings and message transfer to external Internet domains
  
  
• Conclusion
  
  
• Appendix A: SMTP Notes.ini variables
  
  
• Resources
  
  
• About the author
  

Summary

By Shrikant Jamkhandi

Learn how the SMTP protocol and SMTP authentication process works, how to verify whether the IBM Lotus Domino 8 server is open relay, and how to make Lotus Domino obey the SMTP authentication for securing the server from spammers.

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Resources

• Participate in the discussion forum.
  
  
• Lotus Notes and Domino wiki.
  
  
• developerWorks Notes and Domino page.
  
  
• Lotus Knowledge Base Technote, "Using Domino authenticated access for SMTP."
  
  
• Lotus Support Web site.

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