> We use Squirrelmail version 1.2.11 on an ensim server Update your squirrelmail!
> > Anyway, here's the problem. TONS of spam messages are routed to our > "catch-all" email account Don't use an 'catch all' account! > for (1) people who either used to have an email > at our domain and have since left and had their email accounts deleted or (2) > addresses on our domain which do not (and never have) existed. This email account gets hundreds of messages a day, which I then have to review and clear out. Seems you've nothing else to do! > This situation causes two problems. > > (1) When someone accidentally sends a message to an incorrect account - > say because of a typ-o - that person has no way of knowing that the intended > recipient did not get the message because there is no delivery failure. We are a school, so parents get kind of irate when they think a teacher is ignoring their emails. I use sendmail. All those SPAM got a message like: - 553 5.7.1 Rejected: 222.64.191.166 locally listed in rbl - rejecting commands from [163.23.54.1] [163.23.54.1] due to pre-greeting traffic. > (2) This causes an unnecessary maintenance burden, as someone has to go > into that "catch-all" account and clear it out many times a week because of > all the spam that ends up in there. In a week it accumulates THOUSANDS of messages. Yeah. Keeping an admin happy! Person: I'm having a problem... Admin: Sorry I'm busy fighting SPAM... No time for you! > Is there not some way to "return as undeliverable" messages sent to accounts > that don't exist on our domain? No squirrelmail problem. Ask your admin to solve the problem! > > Thanks for any guidance! > > Aletha Evert Couldn't resist : ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
