Well if he was denying the spammers ip it would stop any incoming mail, for
the mail still in the queue I would setup a .qmail for the "fake" user and
redirect it to /dev/null
Problem solved, well except for contacting the spammers isp.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Augusto Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:28 PM
To: Tim Hunter
Cc: Ari Arantes Filho; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SPAM - Help!
Tim Hunter wrote:
>
> If your using tcpserver, you should be denying his connection.
>
> If not you should be, you need to check LWQ for a good reference.
>
I think his problem is bigger than that! What I understood was that he's
receiving bounce from lots of the spam destination servers.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ari Arantes Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SPAM - Help!
>
> Hello,
>
> Someone is using another smtp server to send a very big spam, but they
> write the header with FROM = an unknown user of one of my virtual domains,
> so postmasters keep sending bounce messages or autoresponders to this
> unknown user and my postmaster is receving more than 10000 emails.
>
> I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop this? I
> can't remove the domain of my list of virtual domains because there are
more
> then 100 valid users to this domain...
>
> The spammer is from USA and I'm from Brazil, I don't known this f...
>
> I really need help!!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ari
