We have a Linux mail relayer on the outside of our network.

Every night, we do an export of user smtp addresses (we exclude and
PFs, DLs and anything else we don't want e-mail sent to).  We then
copy that file to a secure location on the Linux box.  Any e-mail that
comes in is compared to that text file.  If the SMTP address being
sent to isn't in the list, it doesn't get delivered.

Jim

On 3/28/07, Wallace Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Chris.

Knowing that the alias would be used solely for internal, is there a
way to filter out these internal aliases from receiving external
emails?

What I have done so far is stamping those email with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and hopefully it works well.

On 3/28/07, Chris Scharff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's not a lot one can do other than filter NDRs just like you would
> any other content. Having internal DL MTP addresses with non-dictionary
> word local-parts also helps somewhat (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Wallace Lam
> Posted At: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:01 AM
> Posted To: swynk
> Conversation: reverse NDR SPAM
> Subject: reverse NDR SPAM
>
> Recently our company has been received a lot of SPAM in the form of
> NDR. It looks something like this:
>
> === === === === === === === === === === === === === ===
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
>
>      Subject:  Browse list of bots
>      Sent:     3/27/2007 9:49 PM
>
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
>
>      [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/27/2007 9:56 PM
>            The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this
> message was sent to.  Check the e-mail address, or contact the
> recipient directly to find out the correct address.
>            < card.komifree.ru #5.1.1 X-Unix; 67>
>
> === === === === === === === === === === === === === ===
>
> We receive about 70 - 80 of those every single day and none of the NDR
> recipients we know of.
>
> The bounced email was addressed back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (replace
> company with my company name) and this mailbox is generally not used
> for sending email. So far 5 of our internal aliases have been hit by
> these NDR SPAM and the worst thing is that those aliases are DLs. So
> you can imagine the propagations effect.
>
> Some of those NDRs came with attachment, which, is obviously a SPAM
> content.
>
> I wonder how I can block or prevent this while allowing the legitimate
> NDR pass through our SPAM filter as these system generated NDRs
> ususally have empty sender <> and did not get filtered.
>
> Tentatively I have enabled content filtering using keywords and that
> largely cut these NDR SPAM down by 90% but that also filter out
> legitimate NDR.
>
> Any ideas will be great.
>
> Thanks.
> Wallace
>
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