Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:56:08 -0500 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: Yury Michurin <yury.michurin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages Message-ID: <20081016115608.17qwm4xcs6jkg84oc@intranet.casasponti.net> In-Reply-To: <692c9a9f0810160717m6e295a77qcf91f7b64a7b726c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081016090102.17qwm4xcs6f4so8ok@intranet.casasponti.net> <692c9a9f0810160717m6e295a77qcf91f7b64a7b726c@mail.gmail.com>
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Yury Michurin <yury.michurin@gmail.com> escribi=C3=B3: > Hello, > start with putting spf record on the domain, > http://www.netdummy.net/stop-bounce-mail.html > and finish with filtering bogus message-id wich was not orignated on your > server with whatever software you using. I've had the spf record for a couple of years and I've started =20 filtering. I guess I was just looking for something different. Thanks for helping me adapt to the real world. ed > > Regards, > Yury > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:01 PM, <eculp@casasponti.net> wrote: > >> In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from >> email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my em= ail >> address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. The end >> result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that others on >> this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a solution that I >> don't have. >> >> The messages are allowed through my obspamd/pf and pf smtp bruteforce >> blocking rules because they are completely legit. >> >> I guess the work around is to filter them on incoming together with our >> local bounce messaages util the spammers get tired of my address. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions, >> >> ed >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >
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