On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Administrator wrote:
> > > > On 1/10/06 3:31 PM, "Bob Keyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Help! SpamCop is blacklisting me because of the interaction of tmda and > > their spam-trap email addresses. Evidently, some spammers are using these > > addresses as their forged sender address, and when TMDA replies, spamcop > > counts that as a strike against me. > > Why not filter through your mail server logs for the spamtrap addresses? > Then block email to them from your SMTP server -- in addition to blocking > those addresses as sender addresses. > > With Postfix, that is a piece of cake. (Or easy as pie ... whichever you > prefer. Me, I like cake.) Depends on the filling. For pie, I like blueberry, but for cake I like chocolate, especially with creme and the espresso. Yum. Thanks a lot, now I am hungry. But, back to the filtering: how do I determine which email addresses are the spam traps? They keep them secret for a good reason. > >The only thing I can think of right now is to start using a different IP > > address for my outgoing SMTP. I can do this, I have most of a class C > > available. I just don't want to have to patch qmail to do this. In any > > case, this would only be a temporary solution. > > Along with my previous advice: get rid of qmail. It is not really > maintained, and patches aren't the right way to do it anyway. I am starting to agree with you about the non-maintainability of qmail. In the past I have dismissed postfix because of the attitude of its author towards my reported security problems many years ago. Perhaps it is time to see if the problem has been fixed, and if so, bury my pride and reconsider postfix. Regards, Bob Keyes _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list (tmda-users@tmda.net) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
