Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:56:36 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flooded with emails to root -- URGG Message-ID: <4463ok9naz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200809250934.57150.david@vizion2000.net> (David Southwell's message of "Thu\, 25 Sep 2008 09\:34\:56 -0700") References: <200809250934.57150.david@vizion2000.net>
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David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> writes: > I am running postfix. > > Am receiving a flood of emails that appear to emanate from Servers who have > received spam that has masqueraded root@mydomain as the email source. > > Could anyone please suggest the best way of dealing with these. Please bear in > mind I am not all that familiar with postfix so if anyone feels treating me > like an idiot and spoonfeeding the actual command s to use I would be most > appreciative <chuckles> http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html > I have just installed procmail but not yet activated it. (Incidentally I do > have a number of virtual domains but the only one that seems to get flooded > is the primary hostname. > > There have also been numerous failed hacking attempts on to the system but as > they keep trying to get in using services that are not actually running they > have got nowhere (so far!!) As far as you know. ;-) -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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