On 10/01/03 at 20:14 -0400, David C King opined:
> Thanks Chris
>
> I don't have any user named 'admin' ...
>
> I did try the router setting that you've suggested, but it didn't
> trash the incoming messages.
>
> What exactly (sorry, I'm just a hobbyist) do you mean by "Put this
> above the line that maps <admin> to the real user account and don't
> forget to enable 'Verify Return-Paths'"?
Oops, sorry, I had a minor brain fart before. For some reason I was
thinking that you were talking about messages addressed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
being delivered to a local account. Ignore the comments about <admin> being
routed to a real account.
In order for the error routing to result in rejecting messages, you need to
go to SIMS' SMTP service settings and check 'Verify Return-Paths' so that
SIMS will check the Return-Paths of incoming messages against the router.
Also, for this to work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> must be the Return-Path of the
offending messages. If you have an example of the message that includes its
headers, the first header line should start with 'Return-Path: '. If the
Return-Path indicated there is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, then routing it to error
will reject the spam messages. It doesn't matter whether or not the 'From:'
header line is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> because SIMS doesn't look at the From
address in any circumstance. If <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the From address but
not the Return-Path, then SIMS can't reject messages on that basis.
> Your words of wisdom on 9/30/03:
>
> >On 09/29/03 at 06:08 -0700, David C King opined:
> >
> >> An email from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has been delivered to one of my users
> >> - well several emails from this name. Though the message originates
> >> from outside my LAN, it is being delivered to my user. I do not have
> >> a real user account in the name of 'admin'.
> >
> >There must be some router entry that maps <admin> to a real user account
> >then?
> >
> >> Can I use the router to route any msg from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to
> >> 'error'? In other words, if any email comes to SIMS from
> >> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I want to kill the email without it being delivered
> >> to any user.
> >
> >Given that you don't have an account named 'admin', and assuming that
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the Return-Path (not just the From) of the spam
> >messages try:
> >
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = error
> >
> >Put this above the line that maps <admin> to the real user account and
> >don't forget to enable 'Verify Return-Paths'.
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Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://www.globalhomes.com/>
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