* [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
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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
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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.
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Eray
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