Your MTA should be doing this job and not SA IMHO. QQQQ
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Roe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:41 PM Subject: catching fake usernames? |I get a lot of spam whose From addresses are users that don't exist on | my system (random names like [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc). | I recently set up a scheme to manually blacklist all From addresses on | my domains and un-blacklist the fifty or so "real" addresses mail can | legitimately come from (the system aliases like postmaster, daemon, | and so forth, and a small handful of real users each with a handful of | aliases), using blacklist_from and unblacklist_from in the local | config file. | | This is a rather fragile system, though -- anytime I go to add any new | users or aliases, I'll have to edit my local.cf files to match. My | user population is rather static, so it's not a big deal, but it seems | like there should be a simpler, more automatic way to do this. Am I | missing something? | |