On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Noel Jones wrote:

jeff donovan wrote:
Greetings
I have a user whos name is being spoofed by the spammers of the world. and her mailbox is getting flooded by legitimate Mailer Delivery notices. Is there anything i can do for her besides change her account name ? I was thinking about a temporary regex to discard those notices. ( i know not the best but it may stem the tide ).
any assistance is welcome
-jeff

General suggestions for combating backscatter:
http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

You can use the ips.backscatterer.org to reject bounces (*NOT* all mail) from known backscatter sources. Do this in smtpd_data_restrictions for compatibility with sender address verification.
# main.cf
smtpd_data_restrictions =
 check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/backscatterer

# backscatterer
<>  reject_rbl_client ips.backscatterer.org

In this case you may also want to *temporarily* reject all NDNs addressed to that particular user. General instructions:
http://www.postfix.org/RESTRICTION_CLASS_README.html

more specific:
# main.cf

smtpd_restriction_classes =
  reject_ndn

reject_ndn =
 check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/reject_ndn

smtpd_sender_restrictions =
 check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/backscatter_recipient

# backscatter_recipient
vic...@example.com  reject_ndn

# reject_ndn
<>  REJECT please don't send notices to forged sender


 -- Noel Jones


Greetings,
I have added the data restrictions, the restrictions class, and the sender restrictions. is there an error number or something I can grep in my logs to check how these new restrictions are functioning? or if they are even having an effect?

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