On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I get a lot of junk mail to my email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, with the header "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Obviously the "From:" is spoofed, because I'm > not sending the spam. The only way my server should except an email with > the header "From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" should be if my authenticated MUA or a > local script (my newsletter php program) sends it. >
What does the 'From:...' of your email from exim-users look like? (it should have your email address in it ;) > There is no good reason I can think of that, another server should be > sending me email "from" myself. See above :) > Is there a way to force Exim to deny > these types of incoming junk emails at SMTP time? -- I assume this > would be done with some form of ACL? > Yup, but it may cause problems with mailing lists, which is why I never pursued it. I use a bunch of pre-DATA checks, and spamd, which catch/block most of the spam I'd otherwise get. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
