I don't see a way to do this with qmail myself. -John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Turrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Changed spammer-technique ? > > Isn't there a way to deny mail that spoofs your own address by checking > the IP# of the connecting machine. If the machine's IP# isn't in your > domain the mail address is forged and should be rejected. > > It seems that this kind of checking should be something the MTA would > handle straight away before tmda even sees the mail. Authentic mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] would have to connect from a machine in your pool of IP > numbers. > > Does qmail do this? > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Mark L. Turrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > > > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Tim Legant wrote: > > > Date: 09 Nov 2003 16:19:52 -0600 > > From: Tim Legant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Changed spammer-technique ? > > > > Brian Ipsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Consider the following headers: > > > > > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [...] > > > > > The spammer uses my own email address as sender to try to inject spam into > > > my system - so the confirmation messages is sent to my own account (and will > > > later on bounce, but that is another issue). > > > > This is a common spammer technique, which is why you'll see people on > > the list telling others not to whitelist themselves. > > > > > Is there any way of avoiding this ?? > > > > Hunt down the spammers and shoot them? <wink> > > > > > Yes, I know I can drop emails with my own address as sender - or > > > bounce them in my badmailfrom file in qmail... but is there another > > > way ?? > > > > Not that I'm aware of. The original message and the confirmation > > request will both end up in pending/ and, after a while, will be > > deleted. That's the most effort-free way of dealing with it that I'm > > aware of. > > > > > > Tim > > > > _____________________________________________ > > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > > > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
