Re: [vps-mail] Sendmail - going from spammers.db to access.db

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:24:02 +0100 scripsit Marjolein Katsma:

> The addresses used by spammers that I'd like to reject are instead ones
> created by dictionary and similar approaches; 'nospam' is one; there's
> also 'marketing', 'sales' and 'info' - none of which have ever been used
> (let alone published) by me. It's mail to these addresses I'd like to
> reject rather than silently discard to dev/null. Just a handful of
> addresses, but they catch a lot of spam now.

In that case, adding to ~/etc/access :

To:sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx		REJECT

etc. for each username you want to reject and rebuilding access.db should do
the trick.

However, I maintain that from my experience you'll find things easier in the
long run if you alias each of your valid e-mail addresses to the same
mailbox in your virtmaps file (instead of creating a separate mailbox for
each one) and turn off the catchall feature.

The day a spammer decides to do a *real* dictionary attack on your domain,
spamming every potential combination of 1 to 8 digits and letters
@yourdomain.tld, you'll see what I mean - it could result in literally
hundreds of thousands of spams ending up in your inbox!

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