Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:31:37 -0600 (CST) From: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com> Cc: matt <matt@BabCom.ORG>, FreeBSD-ISP <isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unsolicited mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991127102943.459B-100000@ns2.jjsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911270945210.14759-100000@cutter.wantabe.com>
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Thank you very much. I think that is great idea. I will probably end up doing the same. Thanks to both of you. On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, 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
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