Am 09.07.2010 12:35, schrieb Administrator Beckspaced.com: > hello there, > > i'm running a postfix 2.4.6 on a opensuse box. > postfix has amawis-new with spamassasin installed ... > > since a few weeks one of my email accounts gets bombarded with thousands > of SPAM mailer daemon error bounces. > could not deliver message ... bla bla bla ... > > it's getting really annoying as there are thousands of error bounces > coming in every single day. > > looks like that the email address ended up on some SPAM mailing lists > ... adn now the mailbox receives all this error message junk > > so ... what's the best strategy to get rid off this problem? > > already had a quick look ... and the error bounces come in with an empty > <> from address ... > which seems to be standard for this ... and by default postfix doesn't > block empty from addresses <> > > so what's the best thing to do to get rid of those thousand error email > bounces? > > thing is that the customer urgently needs this email account as it is > signed up at many service providers. > > could i do a header check for this single email account and reject the > empty from address <> for that email account only? > what are my options? what's the smartest thing to do?? > > thanks a lot for your help & service > > with best regards > becki >
if it always the same host sending backscatter simple block the host by access list and/or firewall lets see some logs, there are many way to deal with backscatter -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
