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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml...@t-b-o-h.net> on 2008/03/09 20:05:23 UTC
Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report
>
> I see delivery attempts to invalid email address regularly. They get
> rejected at the SMTP level. Running such messages through
> SpamAssassin doesn't make sense. Your previous message mentioned
> that you wanted to report these "spam" messages and my reply was
> based upon that.
>
I don't run them through SA. I /dev/null them. They are going
to an email address that doesn't exist, especially 120K of them a day to
a SINGLE domain, they are spam and don't even need to be run through
SA or anything else. They get discarded as soon as they arrive.
>
> >etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable:
> >
> >bingo@example.com bingo
> >bangob@example.com bango
> >bongo@example.com bongo
> >irving@example.com irving
> >*@example.com nobody
>
> The above is incorrect as there is still a processing overhead. I
> suggest using:
>
> @example.com error:nouser User unknown
>
Can't do that as much as I'd like to. Mail comes through
an MX. The MX just passes it along. When the final machine errors
it out, the MX is stuck with trying to get rid of it. The postmaster
also ends up getting a copy of the emails (Yes, I could turn that off,
but for the number of times its pointed out potential hacks, system
issues, etc, I'd rather not. ).
Tuc
Re: How to report
Posted by Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>.
> > >etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable:
> > >*@example.com nobody
> > The above is incorrect as there is still a processing overhead. I
> > suggest using:
> >
> > @example.com error:nouser User unknown
On 09.03.08 15:05, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> Can't do that as much as I'd like to. Mail comes through
> an MX. The MX just passes it along. When the final machine errors
> it out, the MX is stuck with trying to get rid of it. The postmaster
> also ends up getting a copy of the emails (Yes, I could turn that off,
> but for the number of times its pointed out potential hacks, system
> issues, etc, I'd rather not. ).
It would be good to set up LDAP or similar addressing that could reject mail
to unknown user even on MX relay.
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