[Mimedefang] Help with bouncing e-mails to group of users
Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Fri Sep 30 11:32:37 EDT 2005
Ken McKinlay wrote:
> I am hoping for either a simple sendmail or Mimedefang solution for a
> group of invalid addresses being used for joe-jobs. It appears that
> one of our e-mail addresses is sort of being used as the base of the
> "from" address in spam. The user component of the address is in the
> format of "jdow????", where the "?"s are a series of random letters.
> To populate an access.db file for sendmail to deny all the possible
> combinations just for that one example would need more than 450,000
> entries.
Allow me to ask a stupid question.
Why aren't you rejecting ALL invalid addresses? There are various more-or-less easy ways to do this, and it should cut down greatly on the number of bounce messages you have to generate... many of which are probably joe-jobs themselves.
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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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