John Peach wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:26 -0700
Jim Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
Wietse Venema wrote:
Jim Lang:
OK here is the scenario.
Spammer sends mail to: [email protected] from forged
address [email protected]
If [email protected] is delivered locally, not a problem,
if the address is invalid, postix rejects the mail during the smtp
connection.
But if [email protected] is an alias to
[email protected], postfix accepts the mail as deliverable
and forwards it to hotmail.com.
But if [email protected] can for whatever reason not be
delivered, otherserver.com does what it is supposed to do and
rejects the mail during the smtp connection, which causes postfix
to send out a non-delivery report to [email protected] --
backscatter.
Is there a way to stop this?
Yes. Don't forward SPAM.
Wietse
And how do I do that in this scenario?
You use recipient verification.
I must have been really inarticulate when I wrote out the scenario. I
do use recipient verification on my server. How is it that that is not
clear? Do I need to rewrite this post?
