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* [gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam
@ 2006-09-15  5:48 Kevin O'Gorman
  2006-09-15  6:28 ` Eray Aslan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin O'Gorman @ 2006-09-15  5:48 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

My mail queue is chock full of messages that appear to be
error-reports from MAILER_DAEMON to the effect that some piece of mail
is undeliverable.  The form of the messages is baffling to me, and I
cannot figure out what the original message was or where it came from.
 All of the addresses seem bogus.

My fear is that messages with non-bogus addresses are also finding
their way here, and are being delivered to people who deserve better.

Can I train postfix to stop this stuff?  Should I investigate some
more to find out what's going on?
I really do want to run a mail server here, but I'd like to not be
complicit in spam.

++ kevin

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* Re: [gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam
  2006-09-15  5:48 [gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam Kevin O'Gorman
@ 2006-09-15  6:28 ` Eray Aslan
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eray Aslan @ 2006-09-15  6:28 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Fri, September 15, 2006 8:48 am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> My mail queue is chock full of messages that appear to be
> error-reports from MAILER_DAEMON to the effect that some piece of mail
> is undeliverable.  The form of the messages is baffling to me, and I
> cannot figure out what the original message was or where it came from.
>  All of the addresses seem bogus.
[snip]

Most probably you did not configure Postfix to reject all mail for
non-existent recipients.  We cannot tell if this is really the case
without furher information.

If you did not, read and implement:
http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

This is really a question for postfix-users list.

-- 
Eray

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