Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-30 Thread Michael Graff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the time the packet hits badmail from you've already done a lot of work to just reject the connection. Filter it as soon as possible. BEFORE it get to you SMTP port so you don't have to spawn an ident child, then a qmail-smtpd then reject the packet. I'm

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-30 Thread farber
True. The spam may just que on a server somewhere for a few days then die. But you still need to process the mail up to a point to the badmailfrom check and deny the mail. Personal preference I would guess. Paul Farber Farber Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 570-628-5303 Fax 570-628-5545 On

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-27 Thread farber
I would not think so. Filtering is based on a simple premise... don not accept packets from a specific IP address or range of IP's. If you don't know what IP 's to filter, then you must find a way to get that information. Try netstat -n or grep your mail logs for the IP's in question

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-27 Thread Abel Lucano
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not think so. Filtering is based on a simple premise... don not accept packets from a specific IP address or range of IP's. If you don't know what IP 's to filter, then you must find a way to get that information. Try netstat -n or grep

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-27 Thread Asmodeus
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Abel Lucano wrote: Under qmail, i was able (until yesterday) to filter undesirable spam mostly with /var/qmail/control/badmailfrom The question here arises in one spammer (206.221.224.187) who's spamming aol.com from one ppp session with a bogus domain "ba.net" that

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-27 Thread farber
By the time the packet hits badmail from you've already done a lot of work to just reject the connection. Filter it as soon as possible. BEFORE it get to you SMTP port so you don't have to spawn an ident child, then a qmail-smtpd then reject the packet. I'm not sure of exactly how far up

Re: please, some help to block spam

1999-09-26 Thread Abel Lucano
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: find out that ip address aol is using and ipfwadm -I -a deny -S AOL.IP.ADDRESS.HERE -D YOUR.MAIL.SERVER.IP or use tcpserver. i believe that i'm doing so, but aol relays rotates and i'm receiving bounces from differents ip's (lot of aol's