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RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address
From: "Dan Denton" <ddenton () PAYLESSOFFICE com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:31:07 -0500
No additional security checking is involved here, but why not use the Exchange General/Delivery Restrictions screen (Under user properties in AD) to limit who the user can receive email from? Domain or Proxy server authentication to an OWA server should take care of the authentication issue. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Jones [mailto:grjones () gmail com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 6:03 PM To: Steve Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Without explaining why, some of our employees require pop/imap access to our exchange server from the Internet (they only need this for receiving mail, and don't need smtp). So when email from the Internet comes in from a @mydomain.com address, I want to make sure that whomever sent it is authenticated (using exchange), and reject the traditional unauthenticated SMTP traffic when the From address is a @mydomain.com address. I will look at SPF more, but it seems to me that what I'm trying to do should be pretty simple and effective. Thanks Greg On 6/20/05, Steve <securityfocus () delahunty com> wrote:
Not sure I follow on the first part. Your users can connect to your Exchange server via other clients like POP? If so, turn off POP/IMAP.
For spoofing/phishing check out using reverse DNS lookups with Exchange and/or SPF. That will improve your overall email security. STEVE ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Jones" <grjones () gmail com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address In Exchange (any version), I would like to disallow email coming from the Internet (smtp) that has a From address of my domain. This would force our employees to use OWA or Exchange (via VPN of course). This would help with phishing and worms that are fooling some of our employees (e.g., emails from admin () mydomain com). Is this possible? Greg
Current thread:
- Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Greg Jones (Jun 20)
- Re: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Steve (Jun 20)
- Re: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Greg Jones (Jun 21)
- RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address L. Walker (Jun 21)
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- RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Dan Denton (Jun 22)
- RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Gaddis, Jeremy L. (Jun 24)
- RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Subscription (Jun 27)
- Re: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Greg Jones (Jun 27)
- RE: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Tim Hayes (Jun 30)
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- Re: Restricting Incoming Email in Exchange by From Address Steve (Jun 20)