hi

Spam with the "mail to" and "mail from" as same email id

Using a different email server, i email from  [email protected] (with
different auth credentials) to [email protected] (my mail server where
xxxxxx.com is hosted)

the email came thru with the following headers

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RFC822 Message body
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: (qmail 12267 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2009 02:15:10 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 12262, pid: 12264, t: 0.0694s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1 spam: 3.2.5
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on
ns1.xxxxxx.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE,
STOX_REPLY_TYPE,TVD_SPACE_RATIO autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5
Received: from unknown (HELO ns1.yyyyy.com) (208.115.35.224)
by ns1.xxxxxx.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 May 2009
02:15:10 -0000
Received-SPF: fail (ns1.xxxxxx.com: SPF record at xxxxxx.com does not
designate 208.115.35.224 as permitted sender)
Received: (qmail 14831 invoked by uid 89); 1 May 2009 01:49:41 -0000
Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 14752, pid: 14790, t: 1.4497s
scanners: attach: 1.3.1
Received: from unknown (HELO inic1) ([email protected]@59.184.138.203)
by ns1.yyyyyy.com with ESMTPA; 1 May 2009 01:49:40 -0000
Message-ID: <001e01c9ca03$40b50e90$1401a...@inic1>
From: "xxxxxx.com" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: xxxxxx
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 07:49:20 +0530
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180

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> Have you received this type of spam since installing spamdyke? If so,
> please post the headers from an example.
>
> Have you modified the spamdyke configuration that qtp-install-spamdyke
> installed?
>
> If not, you might try enabling reject-ip-in-cc-rdns if that's feasible
> for your use. See spamdyke documentation (http://spamdyke.org) for
> details.
>
> If so, please post your spamdyke configuration.
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i have QTP with spamdyke implemented and running on my server
>>
>> i read thru spamdyke configuration details but did not find anything
>> specific that will actually block spam mail with the "from" and "to"
>> address as the same but originating from a unknown server.
>> Can you point me as to which specific configuration will actually track
>> this and help me to block such mails?
>>
>>
>> by the way i found a spamassassin plugin that blocks emails where the
>> "mail from" different from the "reply to" which i am posting seperately
>> incase it is useful for somebody -- this blocks tons of email list spam
>> with minimal load on spamassassin.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> rajesh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Simply run the qtp-install-spamdyke script, and spamdyke will be
>>> installed for you. Be sure to update to the current QTP before doing
>>> so,
>>> as an older version of QTP might install an older version of spamdyke,
>>> or the older QTP might not contain the qtp-install-spamdyke script at
>>> all. See http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.php/Spamdyke for more.
>>>
>>> There is absolutely no harm in updating QTP. It is benign in and of
>>> itself. It's only when you run some of the QTP tools that your QMT
>>> configuration might change.
>>>
>>> I hope that answers your question.
>>>
>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>> we are indeed using qmailtoaster plus (QTP)
>>>>
>>>> but i would like to know which specific configuration of QTP is
>>>> related
>>>> to
>>>> this ?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> rajesh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>> hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> in spamassassin i generally whitelist specific domains
>>>>>>
>>>>>> whitelist_from_rcvd *[email protected] friendlydomain.com
>>>>>> whitelist_from_rcvd *[email protected] abc.friendlydomain.com
>>>>>> whitelist_from_rcvd *[email protected] xyz.friendlydomain.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i know for sure that the emails from *[email protected] and coming
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> different ip addressess - friendlydomain.com, abc.friendlydomain.com
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> xyz.friendlydomain.com are good email
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what i need to do is blacklist emails from *[email protected] if
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> are NOT from friendlydomain.com, abc.friendlydomain.com and
>>>>>> xyz.friendlydomain.com since i know for sure that emails from
>>>>>> *[email protected] will not originate from any other server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is there is method for this ?
>>>>> As Jake explained, no. Spamassassin won't catch this type of spam.
>>>>>
>>>>> Use spamdyke. There is a script in qmailtoaster-plus
>>>>> (http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com) that will install it for you. It will
>>>>> lighten the load on your server as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>> rajesh
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FWIW, I have a user who does this periodically to save various
>>>>>>> things,
>>>>>>> so for me it's not spam.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you using spamdyke? I'd be surprised if spamdyke didn't catch
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> emails in question.
>>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>
>
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
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