On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:07:58 -0700 (PDT), thadcoco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>Hi All,
>
>My server CentOS 4, Sendmail, MailScanner (SA & ClamAV) is being buried by
>spoofed emails that are bounced back to my domain by the recipient's
>servers. Virtually all these emails are being sent from a zombie at a single
>IP. 
>
>i.e.: All the messages contain the following line somewhere within:
>Received: from d04m-89-83-98-193.d4.club-internet.fr ([89.83.98.193])
>
>I can't figure out how to mark any messages that originally sourced from
>that IP so that that can be dropped by Procmail (that approach would appears
>to be my only hope, as junk is arriving faster than my mail client can pull
>it off the server.
>
>I have tried to write a rule that would mark any message with that
>particular IP, but nothing seems to work.
>
>An example that doesn't work (but does --lint just fine) is:
>
>header ANNOYING_SPAMMER Received =~ /89\-83\-98\-193/
>describe ANNOYING_SPAMMER Mark mail touched by specific IP as spam
>score ANNOYING_SPAMMER 15
>
>Does SA only scan the most recent Received Header line? If so, the "Header -
>Received" syntax wouldn't work because the bad IP is in the original
>Received line. In case that was the problem, I also tried the Rawbody
>operator to no avail.
>
>Note that other than this issue, SA appears to be doing everything else just
>fine.
>
>So I am desperate and would be grateful for any suggestions. For reference,
>here are my full procmailrc and local.cf files for reference.
>
>/etc/procmailrc
>-----------------
>DROPPRIVS=yes
>:0fw
>* < 256000
>| /usr/bin/spamc -f
>
>:0
>* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
>/dev/null
>----------------
>
>/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
>-----------------
># Change the subject of suspected spam
>rewrite_header subject         *****SPAM*****
>
># Encapsulate spam in an attachment (0=no, 1=yes, 2=safe)
>report_safe             0
>
># Enable the Bayes system
>use_bayes               1
>
># Enable Bayes auto-learning
>bayes_auto_learn              1
>
># Enable or disable network checks
>skip_rbl_checks         0
>use_razor2              1
>#use_dcc                 1
>use_pyzor               1
>
>header ANNOYING_SPAMMER Received =~ /89\-83\-98\-193/
>describe ANNOYING_SPAMMER Mark mail touched by specific IP as spam
>score ANNOYING_SPAMMER 15
>---------------


Can you not block them at your router or firewall? Then they are not
taking up threads either. It's how I deal with heavy hitters.

Nigel

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