sendmail (Junk Mail)

Budi Febrianto bfebrian at gmx.net
Tue Jan 23 02:10:26 UTC 2007


Robert Canary wrote:
> I have been looking at the spamassassin for about two days now.  I know 
> the solution has somethin to do with spamc which interfaces with spamd. 
>  But I still haven't seen how to get snedmail to use spamc.  The filter 
> documentation talks about "milters".  So how do yo activate the spamc
> 
> Lord of Gore wrote:
>> Robert Canary wrote:
>>> Our administrator boxes get flooded with emails from spammers who are 
>>> still sending massive emails to address that do not exist.  Of course 
>>> sendmail sends a response back to the from header saying the account 
>>> dosen't exist.  However, the sendmail server is getting those 
>>> responses bounced back to them because these are junk emails with no 
>>> real return address.  As a result the undeliverable mail gets sent to 
>>> "postmaster".  Thus the "postmaster" email is a hoard mess of junk 
>>> email bounced replies.
>>>
>>> How is being handled ?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> robert
>>>
>> Install spamassassin and reject spams. also configure SPF. This should 
>> solve your problems.
>>
> 

Try to install MailScanner http://www.mailscanner.info. Easy enough to 
install and configure and the support is excellent by mailing list. 
Installed last year and now a every happy customer.

Budi Febrianto
    indomino.blogspot.com




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