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. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Lies and videotape but no sex!
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