Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-05 Thread Nataraj
Noel Jones wrote: On 5/5/2010 11:40 AM, Appliantologist wrote: It seems pretty straight forward to me. If you dont have any non-local users sending mail using this server you could just shut down port 25. For those virtual-file id users use port 587 with smtp authentication.Forwarding for those

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-05 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/5/2010 11:40 AM, Appliantologist wrote: It seems pretty straight forward to me. If you dont have any non-local users sending mail using this server you could just shut down port 25. For those virtual-file id users use port 587 with smtp authentication.Forwarding for those users is not relev

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-05 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
On 5/5/2010 12:40 PM, Appliantologist wrote: >> It seems pretty straight forward to me. >> >> If you dont have any non-local users sending mail using this server you >> could just shut down port 25. For those virtual-file id users use port >> 587 with smtp authentication.Forwarding for those users

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-05 Thread Appliantologist
> It seems pretty straight forward to me. > > If you dont have any non-local users sending mail using this server you > could just shut down port 25. For those virtual-file id users use port > 587 with smtp authentication.Forwarding for those users is not relevant > here. Hello, I was assuming thi

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-05 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-05-05 ram wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:29 +0300, Appliantologist wrote: >> I still need to accept mail for the email addresses we host on our >> machine from the net, so blocking port 25 or mynetworks as local host >> would seem to prevent that. we still have users on the domain that

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread ram
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:29 +0300, Appliantologist wrote: > Hi guys, > > I still need to accept mail for the email addresses we host on our > machine from the net, so blocking port 25 or mynetworks as local host > would seem to prevent that. we still have users on the domain that > get mail to t

RE: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread Gary Smith
> Hi guys, > > I still need to accept mail for the email addresses we host on our > machine from the net, so blocking port 25 or mynetworks as local host > would seem to prevent that. we still have users on the domain that > get mail to the address, except now we forward that mail to gmail > usin

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread The Doctor
ains = multiterminal.ua > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual > > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Terry Gilsenan > wrote: > > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On > > Behalf Of Appliantologist [octo...@gmail.com]

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread Charles Marcus
Please stop top-posting... On 2010-05-04 5:29 AM, Appliantologist wrote: > Hi guys, > > I still need to accept mail for the email addresses we host on our > machine from the net, so blocking port 25 or mynetworks as local host > would seem to prevent that. we still have users on the domain that

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread Appliantologist
[octo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2010 9:11 AM > To: Gary Smith > Cc: The Doctor; postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Stopping spammers extreme > > Hi, > > We don't have any legitimate users sending mail aside from scripts on > the server (linux), only mai

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-05-04 Appliantologist wrote: > I had a situation where some of my users had compromised machines and > someone is brazil and indiawere able to authorize themselves to use > sendmail using the login then send scenario. Recently we changed > hosting and set up postfix. In addition we decided

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-04 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-05-04 Terry Gilsenan wrote: > Then change mynetwokrs to be 127.0.0.1 and use a firewall to block > incoming tcp on 25 and 587 it really is that simple. Dont allow > services to listen to anything you dont want them to act on. If you don't want services to listen on interfaces they're not s

RE: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-03 Thread Terry Gilsenan
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Appliantologist [octo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2010 9:11 AM To: Gary Smith Cc: The Doctor; postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Stopping spammers extreme Hi, We don't have any legitimate

RE: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-03 Thread Gary Smith
> We don't have any legitimate users sending mail aside from scripts on > the server (linux), only mail from localhost, anyone with an email > address is listed in the virtual file and has their email forwarded to > a gmail and uses gmail's MTA to send mail. > > Since we have all the email addres

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-03 Thread Appliantologist
Hi, We don't have any legitimate users sending mail aside from scripts on the server (linux), only mail from localhost, anyone with an email address is listed in the virtual file and has their email forwarded to a gmail and uses gmail's MTA to send mail. Since we have all the email addresses we a

RE: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-03 Thread Gary Smith
> > I tried to make a CIDR file with most of the 3rd world in it, some > > 30,000 ips but for some reason it doesn't seem to have the effect I > > was hoping for. > > Any ideas would be helpful, thanks.David > > Add amavisd to your postfix. If they are relaying messages through their server, how

Re: Stopping spammers extreme

2010-05-03 Thread The Doctor
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:45:19AM +0300, Appliantologist wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I had a situation where some of my users had compromised machines and > someone is brazil and indiawere able to authorize themselves to use > sendmail using the login then send scenario. Recently we changed > hosti