how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread ml ml
Hello list, from time to time i get hit by mass mail with fake sender addresses. By default my postfix accepted those mails until it found out that the recipent does not exists. Then postfix tries to send back that 550 User Unknown error mail. However, the sender is fake. Therefore the mails

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread Larry Stone
On Aug 20, 2014, at 3:56 AM, ml ml mliebher...@googlemail.com wrote: rom time to time i get hit by mass mail with fake sender addresses. By default my postfix accepted those mails until it found out that the recipent does not exists. Then postfix tries to send back that 550 User Unknown

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 20/08/2014 10:56, ml ml wrote: By default my postfix accepted those mails until it found out that the recipent does not exists. Then postfix tries to send back that 550 User Unknown error mail. I doubt that Postfix by default accepts mail for users it does not know about, but anyway...

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread L. D. James
On 08/20/2014 07:44 AM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: On 20/08/2014 10:56, ml ml wrote: By default my postfix accepted those mails until it found out that the recipent does not exists. Then postfix tries to send back that 550 User Unknown error mail. I doubt that Postfix by default accepts mail for

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread L. D. James
Try using the relay_recipient_maps feature which will only accept mails in that list. -- L. James -- L. D. James lja...@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames On 08/20/2014 04:56 AM, ml ml wrote: Hello list, from time to time i get hit by mass mail with fake sender addresses. By default my

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread ml ml
This setup is not very unusual if you have a lager network. Then you have multiple mailout servers for send/deliver the mails. How could i possibly control recipients that do not belong to me?! This is my config: -- postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread Wietse Venema
ml ml: This setup is not very unusual if you have a lager network. Then you have multiple mailout servers for send/deliver the mails. How could i possibly control recipients that do not belong to me?! If your MTA is an outbound relay for an internal network, then you could certainly require

Re: how to protect MTAs from mass mails

2014-08-20 Thread Larry Stone
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, ml ml wrote: This setup is not very unusual if you have a lager network. Then you have multiple mailout servers for send/deliver the mails. How could i possibly control recipients that do not belong to me?! You failed to adequately describe the problem. We assumed you