On 2010-07-09 Administrator Beckspaced.com wrote: > since a few weeks one of my email accounts gets bombarded with thousands > of SPAM mailer daemon error bounces. > could not deliver message ... bla bla bla ... > > it's getting really annoying as there are thousands of error bounces > coming in every single day. > > looks like that the email address ended up on some SPAM mailing lists ... > adn now the mailbox receives all this error message junk > > so ... what's the best strategy to get rid off this problem? > > already had a quick look ... and the error bounces come in with an empty > <> from address ... > which seems to be standard for this ... and by default postfix doesn't > block empty from addresses <> > > so what's the best thing to do to get rid of those thousand error email > bounces? > > thing is that the customer urgently needs this email account as it is > signed up at many service providers. > > could i do a header check for this single email account and reject the > empty from address <> for that email account only? > what are my options? what's the smartest thing to do??
I don't know about "best strategy", but if you can route your outbound mail through one server, you could try the proxy filter I wrote a while ago to take care of this problem. http://www.planetcobalt.net/sdb/backscatter.shtml WFM, but beware that it's not tested on (and probably not suitable for) high-volume servers. </shameless-plug> Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
