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
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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
> :
> :
> :
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> :
>
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