Re: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread sandermoors
Wietse, you're the best! Thank you very very much :) - Original Message - From: "Wietse Venema" To: "postfix-users" Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 4:46:57 PM Subject: Re: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in loca

Re: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > sandermo...@telenet.be: > > Can't we use the 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access > > ...' option on port 26 only using parameters in master.cf ? > > Yes. > > /etc/postfix/master.cf >:26 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. smtpd > -o { smtpd_sender_restrictions=$outbound

Re: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread Wietse Venema
sandermo...@telenet.be: > Can't we use the 'smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access > ...' option on port 26 only using parameters in master.cf ? Yes. /etc/postfix/master.cf :26 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. smtpd -o { smtpd_sender_restrictions=$outbound_sender_restrictions } /etc/post

Re: Fwd: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread Nick
On 2019-05-13 12:03 BST, sandermo...@telenet.be wrote: > The hackers forged the from address so our notifications were sent > to that address instead, and we want to prevent that from happening > again. I'm offering the following in the hope that someone will tell me if it's all wrong... a) Add a

Re: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread sandermoors
Sander - Original Message - From: "Wietse Venema" To: "postfix-users" Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 1:16:12 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network? sandermo...@telenet.be: > After some googli

Re: Fwd: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > sandermo...@telenet.be: > > After some googling I found that the "reject_unknown_sender_domain" > > option should reject mail if Postfix isn't the sender's domain > > final destination so that sounds good too. I enabled that option > > but it doesn't seem to work? > > It works as

Re: Fwd: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread Wietse Venema
sandermo...@telenet.be: > After some googling I found that the "reject_unknown_sender_domain" > option should reject mail if Postfix isn't the sender's domain > final destination so that sounds good too. I enabled that option > but it doesn't seem to work? It works as promised. reject_unknown_

Fwd: Postfix as an outgoing spam filter. How to block email for unknown senders in local network?

2019-05-13 Thread sandermoors
We have a postfix system that accepts mail from our internal network. It scans emails for virusses and spam before delivering it. It's listening on port 26 and so far everything works. Last night one of our users's mailbox got hacked and they tried to send a lot of spam emails. Most of it got

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Venkat
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Chuck Peters wrote: > > > I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to > implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with > notifications to staff. Any suggestions? > > > We are successfully using Postfix, Poli

RE: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Marius Gologan
s@postfix.org Subject: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with notifications to staff.  Any suggestions? On the Exim

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
aturday, April 18, 2015 11:35 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking This sounds painfully annoying. I hope your uses never travel, take a vacation, or go on a work trip. And it doesn't stop or help if the user gets a virus

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Patrick Domack
rs Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 8:16 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers'

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with notifications to staff. Any su

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 18.04.2015 um 20:50 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 06:16:56PM +, Chuck Peters wrote: > >> I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to >> implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with >> notifications to staff. Any su

Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 06:16:56PM +, Chuck Peters wrote: > I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to > implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with > notifications to staff. Any suggestions? > > On the Exim user list today someone sug

Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Chuck Peters
Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking Nowadays users' passwords often are stolen (with drive-by exploits, Windows malware, phishing) and used for spamming. Spam sent with authentication via your server causes it to be blacklisted without notice and sometimes no

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-26 Thread Marcin Szymonik
Hello, Many thanks to all who replied. Many suggestion are really helpful and we have been able to stop the spammers for now. Best regards -- Marcin Szymonik szymoni...@gmail.com

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread Ron Wheeler
n Apr 10, 2014, at 6:49 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 10 Apr 2014, at 07:58 , Marcin Szymonik wrote: Hello, We run a free accounts mail server (like gmail) and we struggle with the outgoing spam problem. Spammers abuse our service by creating accounts and then sending out spam. It is very easy a

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread AFCommerce
rote: >> >> Hello, >> >> We run a free accounts mail server (like gmail) and we struggle with the >> outgoing spam problem. >> Spammers abuse our service by creating accounts and then sending out spam. >> >> It is very easy and free to create an accou

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread LuKreme
On 10 Apr 2014, at 07:58 , Marcin Szymonik wrote: > Hello, > > We run a free accounts mail server (like gmail) and we struggle with the > outgoing spam problem. > Spammers abuse our service by creating accounts and then sending out spam. > > It is very easy and free to

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread Marcin Szymonik
As accounts are free and you can easily create tens of them, per account limits don't solve the problem. Most free mail service providers allow their users to send through SMTP and we would prefer to do that as well. Content based filtering may be the way to go indeed - thank you for pointing it.

Re: Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread Nick Warr
On 10/04/2014 14:58, Marcin Szymonik wrote: Hello, We run a free accounts mail server (like gmail) and we struggle with the outgoing spam problem. Spammers abuse our service by creating accounts and then sending out spam. It is very easy and free to create an account and we want it to stay

Outgoing spam problem

2014-04-10 Thread Marcin Szymonik
Hello, We run a free accounts mail server (like gmail) and we struggle with the outgoing spam problem. Spammers abuse our service by creating accounts and then sending out spam. It is very easy and free to create an account and we want it to stay that way so blocking or removing spammers

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Martin Schiøtz wrote: >>> Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to >>> install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job. >>> >> >> I'm sorry to tell you that blocking

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-20 Thread Martin Schiøtz
>> Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to >> install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job. >> > > I'm sorry to tell you that blocking outbound spam is at least harder > than blocking inbound spam. > > - yo

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread mouss
Martin Schiøtz a écrit : > Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to > install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job. > I'm sorry to tell you that blocking outbound spam is at least harder than blocking inbound spam. - you certainly

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Cockings
Martin Schiøtz wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Mark Blackman wrote: On 19 Oct 2009, at 13:41, Paul Cockings wrote: What are you trying to achieve? - why do you want anti-spam on outbound mail? I'd guess he has little or no control over the configuration of the "inter

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Martin Schi?tz: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > On 19 Oct 2009, at 13:41, Paul Cockings wrote: > > > >> What are you trying to achieve? > >> - why do you want anti-spam on outbound mail? > > > > I'd guess he has little or no control over the configuration > > of the

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Martin Schiøtz
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Mark Blackman wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2009, at 13:41, Paul Cockings wrote: > >> What are you trying to achieve? >> - why do you want anti-spam on outbound mail? > > I'd guess he has little or no control over the configuration > of the "internal" machines and so he's c

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Mark Blackman
On 19 Oct 2009, at 13:41, Paul Cockings wrote: What are you trying to achieve? - why do you want anti-spam on outbound mail? I'd guess he has little or no control over the configuration of the "internal" machines and so he's concerned about malware/botnets perhaps. - Mark smime.p7s Descript

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Cockings
What are you trying to achieve? - why do you want anti-spam on outbound mail? Martin Schiøtz wrote: Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job.

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Martin Schiøtz
Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job. - Martin On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Martijn de Munnik wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:50 +0200, Martin Schiøtz wrote: >> Hi >> >>

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Martijn de Munnik put forth on 10/19/2009 6:59 AM: > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:50 +0200, Martin Schiøtz wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm configuring a simple postfix smtp-server that is only used for >> outgoing emails for lots of users. >> I want to do some simple spam checking with postfix. I was thinking o

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Martijn de Munnik
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:50 +0200, Martin Schiøtz wrote: > Hi > > I'm configuring a simple postfix smtp-server that is only used for > outgoing emails for lots of users. > I want to do some simple spam checking with postfix. I was thinking of: > > rbl > spf RBL and SPF are techniques only used f

outgoing spam

2009-10-19 Thread Martin Schiøtz
Hi I'm configuring a simple postfix smtp-server that is only used for outgoing emails for lots of users. I want to do some simple spam checking with postfix. I was thinking of: rbl spf Any other sugestions? I'm not sure were to configure rbl and spf for outgoing emails in main.cf? postconf -n

Re: Fwd: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
Robert Lopez wrote: Thank you Aaron. My supervisor asked me to find a configuration change to postfix. He wants to avoid adding any new agents/programs. It seems the person I replaced had some bad times when trying to add other programs to the mail gateway functionality. Postfix does have

Re: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
; -- Forwarded message -- > From: Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM > Subject: Re: outgoing SPAM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In

Fwd: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Lopez
: Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM Subject: Re: outgoing SPAM To: postfix-users@postfix.org On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past months there have been instances where pfishing was used to get > a

Re: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread mouss
Robert Lopez a écrit : > In the past months there have been instances where pfishing was used > to get account credentials and use the victim's account to send > massive quantities of SPAM. > > Is there a way to configure postfix to detect such an event and/or to > stop such an event from reoccurri

Re: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past months there have been instances where pfishing was used to get > account credentials and use the victim's account to send massive quantities > of SPAM. > > Is there a way to configure postfix to detect such an ev

outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Lopez
In the past months there have been instances where pfishing was used to get account credentials and use the victim's account to send massive quantities of SPAM. Is there a way to configure postfix to detect such an event and/or to stop such an event from reoccurring? Is there a way to limit the nu