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Date:      Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:14:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        dwoods@netgazer.com (Darrin R. Woods)
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spammer problem - help!
Message-ID:  <199802061814.KAA23740@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980206093450.006933b0@netgazer.net> from "Darrin R. Woods" at "Feb 6, 98 09:36:33 am"

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Darrin R. Woods wrote:
> I have had a problem over the last month or so of someone using our
> mailer-daemon to send spam email to myself as well as users on our net.
> 
> My sendmail is running on freebsd and I've applied all of the spammer
> patches that I can find.  I've even added the hostname in the spammer db
> file but our system still accepts mail from him.
> 
> How can I keep this guy and others from forging mail and making it look as
> though it is coming from my mailer-daemon?
> 
> Here is the header from one he sent to my email address yesterday:

	one option: reject all mail with "X-UIDL"
	or use procmail to drop it in a mailfolder that
	you can check whenever the spirit moves you.
	as people have explained the "X-UIDL" header,
	you shouldnt ever see it on mail.  pop or imap
	uses it as status information on each message in 
	your mailbox.....

	similarly you can use procmail to check the "Return-Path"
	against the domains listed in /etc/mail/....

jmb

> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Return-Path: anitb@mail.t-1net.com
> Received: from mail.t-1net.com (root@1Cust182.tnt2.stafford.tx.da.uu.net
> [208.252.105.182]) by netgazer.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA03003 for
> <dwoods@netgazer.com>; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:22:21 GMT
> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:41:31 -0600
> Message-Id: <199802051541.JAA02876@mail.t-1net.com>
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@netgazer.net
> Subject: Low Cost Advertising
> X-UIDL: 6a53b1fd94536b2343668e60c04444de
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Thanks, in advance, and yes I have sent email to abuse@uu.net.



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