On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:14:56 +0000 Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following:
> I did a who-is search on host14-206.pool8172.interbusiness.it and got > bugger all. > > Found out the IP to be 81.72.206.14 Do a whois on the IP :-) > I tried - > > ipchains -A INPUT -s 81.72.206.14 -j DROP > > But my server does not seem to have ipchains or at least it did not > recognise the command and yes I was logged in as root. There is an 'ipchains' package, if you are comfortable with that, which it seems you are. Are you accepting mail directly to your machine, or POP'ing your ISP? > Ideally what I want to do is to get my server to just say "Bog off" > when the delivery attempt is made. Well, AFAIK, the only way to do that is with a bounce, and there's the rub. When you bounce, you just doubled the 'damage' that the spam mail caused, and as jdow so politely pointed out, you may be bouncing to someone who never sent anything, unless you can bounce to the originating IP, but I haven't the faintest idea how you could configure Postfix/Procmail/whatever to do something like that. I'd like to do the same thing, I'm sure a lot of people very annoyed with spam and viruses would, but... > But I don't know how to do that. > > I had hoped that adding the IP or the sender details to the black list > of Spam Assassin might do this but it does not. > > I guess the best thing would be to do a /dev/null in my procmail > script if I had the faintest idea how to do that. Something to check out: http://agriroot.aua.gr/~nikant/nkvir/ Just add it to your .procmailrc, follow the instructions to make sure it's config'd properly, and you can /dev/null them if you want (though it's not recommended). I've been using this recipe for over a year and only had one false positive. -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:57:29 up 25 days, 11:09, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.03, 0.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth." -- The SNAFU Principle
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