Chris Turan a écrit :
> Thank you to everyone. I'm getting some great suggestions. I didn't
> know about several of the features postfix provides and have been
> relying mostly on spamassassin to do the work for me.
>
>> I don't see the smtpd_*_restrictions. Sensible ones there cut down on
>> a
Chris Turan wrote:
Thank you to everyone. I'm getting some great suggestions. I didn't
know about several of the features postfix provides and have been
relying mostly on spamassassin to do the work for me.
I don't see the smtpd_*_restrictions. Sensible ones there cut down on
acres of spam a
Thank you to everyone. I'm getting some great suggestions. I didn't
know about several of the features postfix provides and have been
relying mostly on spamassassin to do the work for me.
I don't see the smtpd_*_restrictions. Sensible ones there cut down on
acres of spam and take load off the
Chris Turan wrote:
Terry Carmen wrote:
Don't do that. Once you've accepted a message, it's yours. Aside from
anything else, it makes you look bad when someone sends a legitimate
email that happens to "look" spammy and you bounce it back as spam.
Right, I'm trying to correct that problem. This
J Sloan wrote:
Keep sending out backscatter spam, and you will most certainly end up on
blacklists.
I think you might have misread my intention. I definitely don't want to
continue sending backscatter. Per another suggestion on the list, I
made a change that stopped all of my backscatter sp
Chris Turan wrote:
>
> Ouch, but you're right. I am creating my own misery. It wasn't a
> problem before when I was unknown to the spammers. Its only been a
> problem for a few weeks and I haven't yet been put on any blacklists.
Keep sending out backscatter spam, and you will most certainly end
Corey Chandler wrote:
Tough-- you're really creating your own misery here. You MUST either
reject at the gateway, or accept the traffic without sending a
bounce. You can delete silently if you trust your filters, but given
that the vast majority of spam has a forged From: header, you're
inflicti
Terry Carmen wrote:
Don't do that. Once you've accepted a message, it's yours. Aside from
anything else, it makes you look bad when someone sends a legitimate
email that happens to "look" spammy and you bounce it back as spam.
Right, I'm trying to correct that problem. This wasn't much of an i
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Turan
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 7:39 AM
> To: Terry Carmen
> Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
> Subject: Re: Stopping backscatter with before-queue
>
>
Chris Turan wrote:
Noel Jones wrote:
amavisd-new meets all your criteria, providing you configure it to
tag+deliver mail rather than bounce.
Well, I also have it set to bounce messages with a spamassassin score
above 12. Turning that off and just delivering everything with
tagging *could*
Chris Turan wrote:
Terry Carmen wrote:
To eliminate *sending* backscatter, all you need to do is not accept
mail you won't be able to deliver:
I am rejecting unknown recipients but the bounces are coming from
messages with a spamassassin score above 12.
Don't do that.
Once you've accepted a
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:13:57PM -0600, Noel Jones wrote:
>
> If you want to investigate setting up amavisd-new as a pre-queue filter,
> general instructions are here:
> http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html
> More specific instructions can likely be found in the archives of the
> amav
Chris Turan wrote:
Noel Jones wrote:
You need to configure postfix to reject unknown recipients during
SMTP. Switching to something other than amavisd-new and/or switching
to a before-queue filter won't help that.
Hey Noel. I actually am rejecting unknown recipients. I wrote some
software
Terry Carmen wrote:
To eliminate *sending* backscatter, all you need to do is not accept
mail you won't be able to deliver:
I am rejecting unknown recipients but the bounces are coming from
messages with a spamassassin score above 12.
Unfortunately, there's still no such thing as a "free lun
Noel Jones wrote:
You need to configure postfix to reject unknown recipients during SMTP.
Switching to something other than amavisd-new and/or switching to a
before-queue filter won't help that.
Hey Noel. I actually am rejecting unknown recipients. I wrote some
software to refresh the reci
Chris Turan wrote:
Hey All,
I'm having an issue with backscatter emails and implementing a
before-queue spam and virus scanner. My current mail server uses a
after-queue amavisd-new scanner with spamassassin and clamav. In the
last two weeks, my system has started *sending* a significant nu
Chris Turan wrote:
Hey All,
I'm having an issue with backscatter emails and implementing a
before-queue spam and virus scanner. My current mail server uses a
after-queue amavisd-new scanner with spamassassin and clamav. In the
last two weeks, my system has started *sending* a significant nu
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