[Mimedefang] New spammer trick?

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Tue Nov 25 13:44:23 EST 2003


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 11/25/2003 11:24:00 
AM:

> 
> But I'm sure there must be a lot of others that can be added to this 
list.
>  The other thing I see a lot of is spam from faked aol.com and yahoo.com 

> addresses. I can tell by looking at the headers that a message from 
> blah at aol.com that's relayed via ES152093.user.veloxzone.com.br is 
obviously 
> forged, but does anyone have a definitive list of _outgoing_ MTAs used 
by the 
> likes of aol and yahoo? It would cut down enormously the amount of time 
I 
> spend looking through quarantine notifications if I could simply do a 
check 
> for something like 
> if ( $Sender ~ /aol.com$/ and ($Relay !~ /aol.com$/ or $Relay !~ 
> /my.backup.mx$/) ) { return("REJECT","blah");}

Why not check that anything from user at aol.com comes from a server that 
ends in aol.com?  If you start adding specific server names, you'll get 
hosed when AOL adds another server in their outbound mail system.



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