Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:17:45 -0600 (CST) From: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com> To: Michael Bryan <fbsd-isp@ursine.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP <isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unsolicited mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991127111701.692A-100000@ns2.jjsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199911270905270460.32B90139@quaggy.ursine.com>
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I think this is good. I wanted to get those ppl somehow. Thanks Jahanur On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Michael Bryan wrote: > > Another option, if you're using a recent version of sendmail, > is to put something like the following line in /etc/mail/access: > > david@iant.com 550 Invalid username > > Then remake access.db: > > makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db </etc/mail/access > > The benefit here is that the message itself is not delivered to your > mail system. Instead it is rejected during the initial "MAIL FROM:" > "RCPT TO:" phase of the SMTP transfer. It also has the benefit of > returning a bounce message to the sender, on the off chance they'll > actually process it. It does -not- send a message to your postmaster > account, even if the return address on the spam is bogus. > > > On 11/27/99 at 9:46 AM Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > >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 > > > Michael Bryan > fbsd-isp@ursine.com > > > > 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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