David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am running postfix.
>
> Am receiving a flood of  emails that appear to emanate from Servers who have 
> received spam that has masqueraded [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the email source. 
>
> Could anyone please suggest the best way of dealing with these. Please bear 
> in 
> mind I am not all that familiar with postfix so if anyone feels treating me 
> like an idiot and spoonfeeding the actual command s to use I would be most 
> appreciative <chuckles> 

http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

> I have just installed procmail but not yet activated it. (Incidentally I do 
> have a number of virtual domains but the only one that seems to get flooded 
> is the primary hostname.
>
> There have also been numerous failed hacking attempts on to the system but as 
> they keep trying to get in using services that are not actually running they 
> have got nowhere (so far!!)

As far as you know. ;-)

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
                http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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