From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org
[mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Jeroen Geilman
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:02 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: how to stop backscatter without check headers

 

On 06/11/2010 12:44 AM, motty.cruz wrote: 

Is there a best way to stop backscatter spam without using check headers?
Traffic is too heavy to user check headers + we received email for three
different domains. 

Using postfix 2.6. 

 

Thanks, 

motty


To stop backscatter spam, don't accept mail you cannot deliver.

That is a very smart answer, please pardon my stupidity. 


Header_checks are trivially spoofed.

J.



Spammers spoof the "from" and gets redirected to "user" in my domain? How do
you fight that? 

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [mailto:mailer-dae...@smtp.newsguy.com]

Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:28 AM

To: u...@obscure.com

Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

 

The original message was received at Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:28:19 -0700 (PDT)
from [124.217.198.141]

 

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<eri...@newsguy.com>

    (reason: Can't create output)

 

   ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 5.0.0
<eri...@newsguy.com>... Can't create output

 

 

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