Re: RE: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-08-01 Thread Michael T. Babcock
That's more of what the RBL is for -- if you want to take that step. The RBL is supposed to be a good list of sites that are producing spam, not that are necessarily open relays at all. "Hubbard, David" wrote: Thanks for responding Chris. I am currently using the MAPS relays.mail-abuse.org

Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:46:29AM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: ! I tried to put @popsite.net in my badmailfrom but that didn't work. badmailfrom is useless. :-) People can arbitrarily set their envelope sender anyway. ! Is there any way to block all popsite.net connections? They always seem !

Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Erwin Hoffmann
Hi, try to use my SPAMCONTROL patch. It gives you REGEX capablility on the MAIL FROM: name and other stuff. http://www.fehcom.de/qmail_en.html cheers. eh. At 02:46 30.7.2000 -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: Hi everyone, I've been noticing a lot of spam coming in to users on my qmail server

Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Chris Hardie
Dave, There's some general info on anti-spam with qmail here: http://www.summersault.com/chris/techno/qmail/qmail-antispam.html Hope this helps, Chris On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Hubbard, David wrote: Hi everyone, I've been noticing a lot of spam coming in to users on my qmail server

Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:28:10AM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: Thanks for responding Chris. I am currently using the MAPS relays.mail-abuse.org with rblsmtpd, I guess the spam I'm getting isn't coming from an open relay. Actually, the spammers usually relay through a valid mail server for

Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Chris, the Young One
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 10:28:10AM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: ! I guess ! in this case my best bet would be to forward it to their ! admins since I can't block by originating IP... By all means complain to their admin. Why can't you block

RE: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread Hubbard, David
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:46:29AM -0400, Hubbard, David wrote: ! I tried to put @popsite.net in my badmailfrom but that didn't work. badmailfrom is useless. :-) People can arbitrarily set their envelope sender anyway

RE: Blocking Spam, badmailfrom not working

2000-07-30 Thread wolfgang zeikat
to contact spammers' mail server administrators i have found it very useful to have signed up with http://spamcop.net via http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml they provide a form to paste the spam mail into and have all the necessary DNS/whois lookups done wolfgang