Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? You can delete them pretty easily if you create a catchall account and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something like junk or spamtrap is usually a good name for the catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. HTH, Jacob Could the postmaster account be used for this or would creating a special account be preferred? Peace... Tom
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:10:17 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. snip You can delete them pretty easily if you create a catchall account and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something like junk or spamtrap is usually a good name for the catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. Could the postmaster account be used for this or would creating a special account be preferred? I strongly recommend against using the postmaster account that way. If your domain is ever believed to be spamming or causing any other kind of problem to people on the internet, the postmaster account is one of the first places they'll try to use to get you to correct it. Very little (if any) postmaster mail should be discarded - even if it's spam. Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Computers are like air conditioners -- they stop working properly if you open Windows pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:10:17 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. snip You can delete them pretty easily if you create a catchall account and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something like junk or spamtrap is usually a good name for the catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. Could the postmaster account be used for this or would creating a special account be preferred? I strongly recommend against using the postmaster account that way. If your domain is ever believed to be spamming or causing any other kind of problem to people on the internet, the postmaster account is one of the first places they'll try to use to get you to correct it. Very little (if any) postmaster mail should be discarded - even if it's spam. Jacob Great point... I'll great a bogus mail account instead. Thanks for the advice... :) Peace... Tom
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:45, Oden Eriksson wrote: Or, try to apply the check user patch to the smtp server so the email never makes it into your queue. Would it be possible to make a domain that uses this technique but forward all mail to another server, as a gateway? checkuser patch uses vpopmail calls. the domain would have to be in vpopmail on the other server and/or would require some more advanced configuration. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! . Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 23:02, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: checkuser patch uses vpopmail calls. the domain would have to be in vpopmail on the other server and/or would require some more advanced configuration. I ran into another problem. My mx server, which really shouldn't have email addresses is listed in defaultdomain, rcpthosts and virtualdomains. However I never added it as a domain. I discovered that qmail was trying to deliver to a box in this domain (which didn't exist). So I tried to add the domain and got a segfault. Some how I got it into a state where trying to delete the domain give Domain doesn't exist and trying to add it returns Domain already exists. Have I totally screwed up here? How can I recover this install? Any help is greatly appreciated. tom jackson
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
please don't include me in the receipient list of messages posted to the list. I already get a copy, I do not need multiple copies, thank you. On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:45, Tom Jackson wrote: I ran into another problem. My mx server, which really shouldn't have email addresses is listed in defaultdomain, rcpthosts and virtualdomains. However I never added it as a domain. I discovered that qmail was trying to deliver to a box in this domain (which didn't exist). So I tried to add the domain and got a segfault. so this is not related to the thread you replied to to make this post? If not, please, in the future, start a new thread when asking a new, unrelated question. Most mail clients have a 'new mail' function that cna handle this. That being said: Some how I got it into a state where trying to delete the domain give Domain doesn't exist and trying to add it returns Domain already exists. if it's only in rcpthosts and virtualdomains, just remove it from them manually (text editor, sed, perl, c program, lots of ways to do this) and then HUP qmail-send. If this machine is to receive email for the domain and pass it off to another server, simply add the domain to to rcpthosts and make a corresponding smtproutes entry to pass it to the other machine. You will of course have to remove the domain from virtualdomains to prevent local delivery of the mail from being attempted. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! . Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
onsdagen den 28 januari 2004 08.02 skrev Jeremy Kitchen: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 14:45, Oden Eriksson wrote: Or, try to apply the check user patch to the smtp server so the email never makes it into your queue. Would it be possible to make a domain that uses this technique but forward all mail to another server, as a gateway? checkuser patch uses vpopmail calls. the domain would have to be in vpopmail on the other server and/or would require some more advanced configuration. -Jeremy Soon I will have to implement this. I have seen other similar solutions that are vpopmail independent. I don't want to lose /etc/passwd user functionalities..., as with the checkuser patch. I want both;) It would be very nice if this was added to vpopmail+qmailadmin, like a ghost or maybe a forward domain where one can keep the email addresses in sync by uploading a csv file or something like that. This particular setup I'm having is a wan - qmail - groupwise thing, plus standard vpopmail domains. Cheers.
[vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? TIA tom jackson
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 1:57 pm, Tom Jackson wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? TIA tom jackson Set your bounce option to delete. The .qmail-default file will look like | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete Or, try to apply the check user patch to the smtp server so the email never makes it into your queue. Ken Jones
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
On 27 Jan 2004 11:57:01 -0800 Tom Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? You can delete them pretty easily if you create a catchall account and then tell it to delete all e-mail delivered to that account. Something like junk or spamtrap is usually a good name for the catchall account, if you're making it strictly to dump all mail coming to users that don't exist. Make sure you don't have any valid e-mail going to that catchall before you start deleting them though. HTH, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Where do you want to go today? Don't ask Microsoft for directions. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [vchkpw] bounce maybe used to relay spam
tisdagen den 27 januari 2004 20.59 skrev Ken Jones: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 1:57 pm, Tom Jackson wrote: I'm seeing a number of emails like [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming in to my server. They are from different users. Since the local user doesn't exist, qmail is attempting to bounce the message back to the sender. Most of these are failing, the messages are obviously spam. I'm running vpopmail on the domains in question. Is there any way to configure vpopmail or qmail to reject email if the local address doesn't exist, or to silently trash the email? TIA tom jackson Set your bounce option to delete. The .qmail-default file will look like | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' delete Or, try to apply the check user patch to the smtp server so the email never makes it into your queue. Would it be possible to make a domain that uses this technique but forward all mail to another server, as a gateway?
