hi all.... i have a machine heavily hit with a bunch of from=<> messages...
i read around and implemented the access solution as in: /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html>: smtpd_client_restrictions <http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_client_restrictions> = check_client_access <http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#check_client_access> hash <http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_README.html#types>:/etc/postfix/access /etc/postfix/access: 1.2.3 REJECT 1.2.3.4 OK my /etc/postfix/access looks like: .eigbox.net DISCARD .yourhostingaccount.com DISCARD and did the postmap command how do i know it's working? i still get lots of these in my maillog: Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[23960]: 0495F4352D: client=mail-yh0-f43.google.com[209.85.213.43] Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[7889]: connect from mail-qc0-f175.google.com[209.85.216.175] Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/cleanup[14901]: 0495F4352D: message-id=<e1vqr1u-0000kr...@mailscan22.yourhostingaccount.com> Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/qmgr[12941]: 0495F4352D: from=<>, size=3277, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[23960]: disconnect from mail-yh0-f43.google.com[209.85.213.43] Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[7889]: 1A8B34355B: client=mail-qc0-f175.google.com[209.85.216.175] Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/cleanup[9395]: 1A8B34355B: message-id=<e1vqlgm-0005pe...@mailscan20.yourhostingaccount.com> Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/qmgr[12941]: 1A8B34355B: from=<>, size=3280, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[7889]: disconnect from mail-qc0-f175.google.com[209.85.216.175] Dec 11 17:52:11 ip-10-114-59-124 postfix/smtpd[1060]: connect from mail-qc0-f176.google.com[209.85.216.176] my queue is growing very big and can't really figure out how do i drop this connections and do not reply to them at all... thanks...