>> >> Hi! I host a number of domains on a box and I recently added one which >> has resulted in that domain literally being HAMMERED by some spammer >> sending spam to every kind of bogus e-mail address for this new domain you >> can think of. >> >> The server is a Linux box running RedHat 9 with Qmail >> (netqmail-1.05)/Vpopmail 5.4.9/Courier-IMAP 4.1.0 w/ SpamAssassin 3.1.1 >> (perl 5.8.8)/ClamAV 0.88.1. >> >> The incoming messages are being sent to addresses like: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> and sometimes there will be other addresses CC'd on the message. The CC'd >> addresses are in other domains and mainly in the ".ru" domain. >> >> For a while, Qmail was bouncing the messages and since then I've changed >> it to have the messages delivered to the postmaster account. So, the >> postmaster for mydomain.com is geting flooded with spam addressed to bogus >> messages in the mydomain.com domain. >> Hi Tom,
even qmail can be patched to - reject messages to non-existent users. - refuse service to senders that do not wait for server greeting - greylist Wolfgang Hamann
