[Mimedefang] Specifying valid users?

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Wed Aug 10 15:07:16 EDT 2005


Josh Graham wrote:
> Hi all, I've noticed that lately a lot of spam is directed to people
> that don't actually exist in my company.  It looks like spammers are
> just guessing names of people who might work here.  Since my Linux box
> is just a relay for the exchange server I don't know of anyway to
> actually do checking to see if a user exists.  Also, since anything
> labeled as spam gets redirected to a specific mailbox it doesn't even
> get rejected at the exchange server.
> 
> Any ideas?

Yup - http://www.mimedefang.com/kwiki/index.cgi?RelayCheckAddresses

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Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com               805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com       Software Engineer




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