On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:33 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
At 1:38 PM -0600 1/16/08, billc imposed structure on a stream of
electrons, yielding:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = spamtrap
No.
SIMS 'spamtrap' is not what the word 'spamtrap' has evolved to mean
since the last SIMS update. Routing an address to spamtrap means
that it is accepted at the RCPT stage but the message is rejected
entirely at the DATA stage, preventing delivery to any of the
addresses given in RCPT commands, even the ones that were legitimate.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = spamtrap
Well, I added the above to the top of my router table in my backup
server and my spam dropped to a trickle and I seem to be getting all
my email just fine at my primary server.
After I blew out my router and rebuilt it I had lost some spamtraps
and my spam went up 10 fold. Now it is lower than it was originally.
I do not have the
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = spamtrap
in my primary router table.
I'm confused.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> matches any mail coming from IP addresses in the
local blacklist or in any of the DNSBL's you are using. The only
reason to have ANY router rule matching any @blacklisted pattern is
to exempt specific addresses or address patterns from those
blacklists.
If you have NO such rules, you simply never accept mail from the
blacklisted IP's, and it should never be seen by anything else of
yours, since you never even see the data.
What sort of setup do you run that causes mail rejected by SIMS to
go to some other machine of yours?
The primary server would reject the email and it would be sent to my
secondary which would receive it and then route it to the primary
which would accept it because it came from a client IP. When my
backup server was offline the spam was being routed to my listserver
which did throw it away but the drawback to that is that to the
spammers it looks like it might be an open relay and so it was get
hammered occasionally.
So for what it is worth, it seems to be working fine for my needs.
Bill Cole, do you have a preferred method to do what I enumerated above?
Thanks for any tips/info.
M./
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