> what i do not understand is that i get three days the same idiot spam > mail about administration part-time job for 3000$ per month to always > the same post-master address in exactly 3 different variants > > guess it is the best to setup a sieve-filter trahsing this diretly > on the server by exact subject....
Hello, I followed the discussion about filtering postmaster@ accounts. I have to agree, most spam is received on that address. The top-spam accounts on my servers are abuse@ postmaster@ and webmaster@. I agree with rob0 as well, I can't go through thousands of mails manually to check for legitim mails; I guess the best thing you can do with postmaster@ and similar addresses (even if it might be against the RFC) would be to use some weaker-filters (for example I wouldn't use spam-assassin to detect spam, I would however use a virus-scanner). Then if you take a look at postscreen, how would you disable postscreen for the postmaster address (thats not possible - and postscreen is some sort of filter, which means everyone who's using postscreen already doesn't follow the RFC if postmaster@ should be completly unfiltered) A better approach _might_ be to reject all mails to postmaster@ with a message pointing to a contact-form. That way you could also make sure that users with problems will provide "useful" information (as you can configure the fields of the contact-form and require specific information). Something like: check_recipient_address ... postmaster@.. REJECT For complaints please use http://....form.html -- Jean Bruenn <jean.bru...@ip-minds.de>
