Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-21 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I'm not sure what has happened, but my own email address along > with > many of my users is being used as a forged sender address for a lot of FYI, this is old news. You've just got lucky until now. Get onto the ~warez lists and ge

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Martinec
Eray, > The above and non-milter DKIM sign/verify are great features. > Do you have a timetable for the 2.6.0 release? Hopefully within a week. Mark - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-15 Thread Eray Aslan
On 15.04.2008 15:22, Mark Martinec wrote: >> For inbound NDRs, the original recipient of the NDR could be checked for >> a corresponding outbound message from the original sender. Without a >> match, the SA score could be bumped a few points. It seems that the >> major challenge would be in ident

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Scott, > Could the amavisd penpals feature be of some help here? Yes. > For inbound NDRs, the original recipient of the NDR could be checked for > a corresponding outbound message from the original sender. Without a > match, the SA score could be bumped a few points. It seems that the > major

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-15 Thread Crosby, Scott F.
> A great document on helping with this problem is: > > http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html This certainly can help, but my tests have shown that SA catches pretty much all of this type of backscatter, anyway. In fact, most of the messages caught by this method would end up with an SA

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread lartc
Ditto -- any help here ??? cheers c On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 14:21 -0600, Craig Baird wrote: > Quoting Rob MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Have you looked into SPF, which should help make your domain less > > attractive to spammers forging addresses. > > There is something going on. We're s

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread John Evans
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I'm not sure what has happened, but my own email address along with > many of my users is being used as a forged sender address for a lot of > spam, and I'm getting pummeled by backscatter (as in I just came back from > lunch after having cleared

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread Mark Martinec
Craig, > There is something going on. We're seeing a ton of backscatter as > well. It seems that spammers are resorting to mass joe jobs, and > have been doing so for a couple of weeks. There were a couple of > posts over on the SA list recently saying that some people are seeing > this same th

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread Craig Baird
Quoting Rob MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have you looked into SPF, which should help make your domain less > attractive to spammers forging addresses. There is something going on. We're seeing a ton of backscatter as well. It seems that spammers are resorting to mass joe jobs, and have been

Re: [AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:44 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'm not sure what has happened, but my own email address along with > many of my users is being used as a forged sender address for a lot of > spam, and I'm getting pummeled by backscatter (as in I just came back from > lunch afte

[AMaViS-user] Backscatter

2008-04-09 Thread MBGaskins
Ok, I'm not sure what has happened, but my own email address along with many of my users is being used as a forged sender address for a lot of spam, and I'm getting pummeled by backscatter (as in I just came back from lunch after having cleared them out and had 27 more delivery failure messages

Re: [AMaViS-user] backscatter ==? final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer

2008-02-28 Thread Gary V
On 2/28/08, Gary V wrote: > On 2/28/08, John Thomas wrote: > > I recently saw the following recommended configuration show up on the list: > > final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer > > Does this cause backscatter if Amavis is not set up as a milter and if > > so

Re: [AMaViS-user] backscatter ==? final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer

2008-02-28 Thread Gary V
On 2/28/08, John Thomas wrote: > I recently saw the following recommended configuration show up on the list: > final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer > Does this cause backscatter if Amavis is not set up as a milter and if > so shouldn't that be discouraged as it

[AMaViS-user] backscatter ==? final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer

2008-02-28 Thread John Thomas
I recently saw the following recommended configuration show up on the list: final_spam_destiny => D_BOUNCE, # so the sender knows they are a spammer Does this cause backscatter if Amavis is not set up as a milter and if so shouldn't that be discouraged as it causes spam? Link regarding backscatter

[AMaViS-user] Backscatter! (Was: skip amavis for relay_domains)

2007-09-22 Thread Jo Rhett
I'd like to point out that you are causing tens if not hundreds of thousands of people to get more spam in their mailbox using this design. Why? 1. You accept a piece of spam with a forged sender. 2. You attempt to contact the far side for delivery. 3. The far side recognizes spam and rejects it