Paul Gregg writes:
> John R. Levine wrote:
> >>What you want is:
> >>/var/qmail/control/badmailheaderto
> >>which really doesn't buy you anything.
>
> > What I would like, and I believe what he's asking for, is
> > /var/qmail/control/badmailto which would list specific addresses in
> > otherwise acceptable domains to which all mail should bounce
> > instantly. They'd match against the "MAIL TO:<whoever>" command, not
> > anything in the body.
>
> > I have a fist full of 100% spam-only addresses in my domains that were
> > scraped ages ago, never were valid, and get spammed every day. I
> > currently receive the spam and complain back to the IP sender, but it
> > would be easier to bounce them directly.
>
> What you and others have failed to realise in this thread is that although
> you may be receiving spams with the header "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" you
> *will not* be receiving the email into your system with a
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Paul? John knows *exactly* what he's talking about. He wants the
ability for an unpatched qmail-smtpd to reject mail which is *known*
to bounce. For example, I repeatedly get spam sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Obviously some spammer database got munged, and of
course the people selling the database don't care. I would like to
have a badrcptto file which contains [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> And to give you a solution, if you really need one, is to have qmail pipe the
> email to a Maildir enabled procmail which can easily see common spammer
> headers.
Nope. Won't do it. The point is to reject the mail in the SMTP
conversation -- something which qmail-smtpd does not have the ability
to do. Oh yeah, you can insert a qmail-queue wrapper, but what
happens the next time you do a ``make setup''?? Your wrapper gets
blown away. Oops! Dan's probable reply? "Don't be stupid." Sorry,
Dan, I *am* stupid (or at least more stupid than you). I'm not
completely stupid, though -- I know enough to ask for a mechanism to
protect me against my stupidity. AND, it's just plain impolite and
wasteful to issue a DATA command for email you *know* you're going to
bounce.
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