Re: [vps-mail] spam viruses really getting me down

["Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:27 PM 6/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:

> At 02:04 PM 6/16/2005, Andy wrote:
> >You'll get a ton of rejected mail in the webmaster box, as the server thinks
> >that's the sender. And it's unwise to trash all mail to webmaster.
>
> If I shouldn't trash the webmaster mail, does this mean that I shouldn't 
> use your quick solution to the procmailrc file?

The procmailrc recipe trashes incoming mails From webmaster not To webmaster
The other part of my suggestion was not to use the webmaster identity 
(implied "...for outgoing mails")
;-)

> The trouble is that the mail is not bouncing. It is actually being 
> delivered. On the mailing list server, the listowners are actually 
> receiving the mail from webmaster. Also I've got another server that is 
> being spoofed at the support, sales and webmaster addresses. It appears 
> that they are delivering to email addresses with the same domain. This is 
> really frustrating.

Modify the recipe to include any and all spoofed addresses (and do not send 
out mail from those identities)

BTW : my "quick" solution was really a "quick and dirty" fix. There MUST be 
a better, long-term way...

Andy

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