Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-30 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 28 Nov 2006 at 11:33, Steven W. Orr wrote: snip One more example to be clearerer. This message came in from someplace in Russia (maybe), to syslang.net and claims to come from bs at syslang.net. I don't have a bs on my machine. If it helps, I'd even be willing to create a file with a

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven W. Orr wrote: On Tuesday, Nov 28th 2006 at 08:09 -0800, quoth John D. Hardin: =On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: = = Spam comes in to steveo from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to = reject it because it's coming from an address

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: Spam comes in to steveo from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to reject it because it's coming from an address that doesn't exist. Sendmail does not support this; i.e., it can only reject mail *to* an address that doesn't exist. Is there a way to do

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tuesday, Nov 28th 2006 at 08:09 -0800, quoth John D. Hardin: =On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: = = Spam comes in to steveo from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to = reject it because it's coming from an address that doesn't exist. = Sendmail does not support this; i.e., it can only

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:33:52AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: Sorry, I was afraid this might not be clear. I want to find a way to reject/tag all messages that come From the syslang.net domain (I am that domain) which are From a user which does not exist. I'm not talking about messages

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread John Rudd
John D. Hardin wrote: If you want to only accept mail from valid user names in foreign domains, that's more of a problem. Very few sendmail installs these days enable VRFY, in order to cut down on dictionary attacks. The only semi-reliable way to check whether a given alias at a foreign domain

RE: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Subject: Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain. On Tuesday, Nov 28th 2006 at 08:09 -0800, quoth John D. Hardin: =On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: = = Spam comes in to steveo from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I want to = reject it because it's coming from an address that doesn't

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote: =First off, what exactly do you mean by does not exist? The domain =is not registered? Or the username is not valid within the domain? Sorry, I was afraid this might not be clear. I want to find a way to reject/tag all messages that come From the

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Frovarp
Steven W. Orr wrote: Here's the game. I host my own domain on my own machine off the cable modem. I have maybe 6 accounts of legit users. I'm running sendmail/spamassassin/spamass-milter to reject spam before it's accepted. I have a problem with spam coming in that's from addresses on my own

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Richard Frovarp wrote: Steven W. Orr wrote: Here's the game. I host my own domain on my own machine off the not support this; i.e., it can only reject mail *to* an address that doesn't exist. Is there a way to do this? Sendmail can reject based off of from.

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread j o a r
On 28 nov 2006, at 16.41, Steven W. Orr wrote: Here's the game. I host my own domain on my own machine off the cable modem. I have maybe 6 accounts of legit users. I'm running sendmail/spamassassin/spamass-milter to reject spam before it's accepted. I have a problem with spam coming in