on Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:19:58PM -0500, Chris Ashmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am the sysadmin of an ISP that has started using TMDA with a few
> customers. Great system so far from what my customers have told me and I
> agree. The only problem that I have with it is the heavy increase of
> what I would call "Administrative Spam", all the returned mail from
> "user unknown" to "mail box unknown" to "mailbox exceeds quota". These
> are all generated from the confirmation message that is sent, and then
> returned because the spammer of course uses bogus email addresses in the
> reply-to and from. So my question is. What are the other sysadmins of
> tmda systems doing with all this mail? Do you just grin and bare it and
> delete all of them or have a script that cleans out these messages? I
> apologize if this issue has already been discussed I searched though the
> archives of the mailing list briefly and was unable to find answers to
> this question. 

Pre-filter incoming mail against viruses, spam, and spoofed headers.
Restrict challenges to mail which isn't highly likely to use spoofed
addresses.


Peace.

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