Marc Perkel wrote:
> What I've noticed is that domains with catchall accounts are
> usually the ones that get abbused this way. MTAs the reject bad
> email addresses at SMTP time are not what spammers like when it
> comes to choices of domains to spam or spoof.
To clarify, from the senders' perspe
On 19-May-2009, at 22:23, option8 wrote:
is there any particular reason this might be happening to just this
one
domain?
Many possible reasons. The most obvious is they used to accept all
emails (catchall) or they had a lot of users with a lot of virus/
malware on their windows machines.
> Thanks for the tarbaby feed. If you use the
> hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com black list it will work better for you
> because it's harvesting your data from the high spam domain. If you use
> that list to block you can reduce your system load.
>
yep. i added that at the same time. so far,
option8 wrote:
it is common for one domains to get an order of magnitude more spam
than another that seems just like it. like mark said, it probably
won't stop. low overhead techniques like greylisting or no listing
can reduce the stress on your server quite a bit. configuring your
mta
>
>> it is common for one domains to get an order of magnitude more spam
>> than another that seems just like it. like mark said, it probably
>> won't stop. low overhead techniques like greylisting or no listing
>> can reduce the stress on your server quite a bit. configuring your
>> mta to
Aaron Wolfe wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
option8 wrote:
on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a
fairly
aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users.
most
of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my lo
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
> option8 wrote:
>>
>> on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a
>> fairly
>> aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users.
>> most
>> of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my logs.
>>
>>
option8 wrote:
on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a fairly
aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users. most
of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my logs.
however, one domain that i host gets constantly bombarded, and has since i
to
