sendmail (Junk Mail)

Lord of Gore lordofgore at logsoftgrup.ro
Mon Jan 22 13:15:03 UTC 2007


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.




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