spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Reindl Harald
am i th eonly one currently receiving a ton of spam with all sorts of "job vacation" to my postmaster-account all day long? different sender-IPs so abuse to the providr will not help much, problem here is via RFC postmaster must not be filtered and so the spamfirewall does not help in any way how

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very well deal with most of the bots that things like zen.spamhaus.org would normally deal with. And strictly speaking, you're

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:59:22PM -0500, Peter Blair wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald > wrote: > > how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? > > Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very > well deal with most of the bots that things like

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.02.2012 21:59, schrieb Peter Blair: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? > > Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very > well deal with most of the bots that things like zen.spamhaus.org > wo

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Simon Brereton
On Feb 17, 2012 6:14 PM, "Reindl Harald" wrote: > > > > Am 17.02.2012 21:59, schrieb Peter Blair: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? > > > > Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very > > well d

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.02.2012 00:17, schrieb Simon Brereton: > > On Feb 17, 2012 6:14 PM, "Reindl Harald" > wrote: >> >> >> >> Am 17.02.2012 21:59, schrieb Peter Blair: >> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald > > > wrote: >> >> how do ot

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Dennis Carr
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: what i do not understand is how f^&%@#!!$ stupid people are spamming to postmaster/abuse-addresses (bowdlerized for comical effect -ed) As near as I can tell, the spammers just run under a few assumptions. RFC requires one to maintain those addresse

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Dennis Carr
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: what i do not understand is how &%#^%$@!! stupid people are spamming to postmaster/abuse-addresses Oh. One other thing - they don't care. There is no courtesy. They don't care if you scream at them, yell at them, because people are paying them to

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.02.2012 02:46, schrieb Dennis Carr: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> what i do not understand is how &%#^%$@!! stupid >> people are spamming to postmaster/abuse-addresses > > Oh. One other thing - they don't care. There is no courtesy. They don't > care if you scream a

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Ram
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:49 -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:59:22PM -0500, Peter Blair wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald > > wrote: > > > how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? > > > > Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylistin

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-18 Thread Jean Bruenn
> 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 e

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-18 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 18.02.2012 10:55, schrieb Jean Bruenn: > 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

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-18 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Reindl Harald : > > Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very > > well deal with most of the bots that things like zen.spamhaus.org > > would normally deal with. And strictly speaking, you're not filtering > > it -- just making a policy decision to not accept the transac

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-19 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-02-18 00:14, Reindl Harald skrev: what i do not understand is how fucking stupid people are spamming to postmaster/abuse-addresses +1 hello lease web :-)