Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 09:46:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com> To: matt <matt@BabCom.ORG> Cc: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com>, FreeBSD-ISP <isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unsolicited mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911270945210.14759-100000@cutter.wantabe.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911271022570.92984-100000@s01.arpa-canada.net>
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i have an alias for this purpose (in /etc/aliases): bitbucket: "|cat >/dev/null" then any address i want to so handle, i either put a .forward file in place or another alias entry, pointing to bitbucket. cheers, jeff -- | |\ +------------------------------+ Jeffrey J. Libman, ops. mgr. | \ | Wantabe Internet Services | Wantabe, Inc. |__\ +------------------------------+ jeffrl@wantabe.com <-----|------> | access web cgi ftp news mail | (281) 493-0718 __,.-=\'`^`'~=-../__,.-= +------------------------------+ On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, matt wrote: > > Make an e-mail alias that pipes all mail to david@iant.com to /dev/null. > I'm not sure how to do that with sendmail, but I did it with qmail. I'm > sure one would be able to do this with sendmail or postfix as well. > > This can be a big help if the user recieving all the spam is not a real > user on your site. I also have been getting increased amounts of email > spam, it would seem these idiots increase their spamming around the > holidays. Hope this helps. > > Matt > > On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, jahanur wrote: > > : HI folks, > : Holiday greetings to you all. > : I have been receiving unsolicited e-mail to one of my virtual e-mail > : domain which does not exist. It looks like that somebody who used to own > : this domain(iant.com) had a user called "david" and this person put his > : email address to some big sales email lists companies ( I think its all of > : the lists in the world). And listed himself as "david@iant.com". We host > : the virtual site "www.iant.com" since the beginning of this year. Since I > : up the Virtual DNS before I had any user added for this organization, the > : emails for david@iant.com was hitting our server and keeping my server > : busy. Ofcourse I (the admin) gets the returned mail message from the > : sendmail. > : I ignored it for 3 months and thought that the email listing companies > : will take care of it when they get the message not sent to david@iant.com. > : But I see that it is increasing more and more everyday, about 10 to 15 > : messages sometimes. > : Actions that I took against it is > : 1) I tried to send warnig e-mail to the dns it was comming from.(did not > : work). I get returned mail from that. > : 2) I tried to creat the user and send the "unsubscribe messge to > : particular list" as david, as they curtiously suggest the serder to do so > : at the bottom of the email. It looks like that also does not work. > : > : I dont what to do now. Please help me. > : I know this is your holiday time so I can wait. > : > : Thank you in Advance. > : > : Jahanur > : > : > : > : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > : with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > : > > -- > "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians > would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees > and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the > opposable thumb was overrated." > -Sheridan, "A Distant Star" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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