How to selectivey route messages 7108

I think you're pretty much in sync with my understanding except for maybe one or two things. As long as you are not accepting DNS queries from outside, you're not running a DNS server as far as Verizon is concerned. Outbound SMTP is fine, because you're the client, not the server. For inbound SMTP, you are running a server, which would violate the rule. The solution to inbound mail would seem to be to have people send through your dialup rather than through Verizon.

That appears to be correct. Again, outbound mail is okay to send to eth1. The routing of inbound mail is done by the sender, not by the receiver.

Actually, email does use IP addresses. The "my.static.IP" is looked up via DNS by the sender. If I'm understanding the situation, it would come in via ppp0.

You lost me as to what a few of the "it"s refer to, but that's okay. One option would be to backup the XP parbreastions, and maybe the Linux parbreastions, then do whatever Verizon requires you to use XP for (if anything), then reformat and restore the XP parbreastions and verify (or restore) the Linux parbreastions. That's a lot of work, but it would undo any infection.

-- Robert Riches (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)