Re: Mail Attack

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What setting did you use. I experience a LARGE amount of daily SPAM traffic. SPAM to SPECIFIC accounts I can route to a bit bucket (/dev/null) but would like to "quietly drop all the rest also. I am running Postfix also (love it!!!)

Leon Sonntag
Network Administrator

At 12:32 PM 8/23/2005, you wrote:
Jessica Zhu wrote:
Hi,
It looks like we are experiencing the mail attack now.
In our maillog, we have a lot of User Unknown message like the following.
Aug 23 11:52:25  s1 sendmail[2110]: j7NFqPL02110:
<Oscard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>... User unknown
Aug 23 11:52:25 s1 sendmail[2110]: j7NFqPL02110: from=<>, size=17601, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=mail.vis-inc.net [66.77.28.202]
It looks like that all the from is <>, does anyone have the way to fight against it.

Someone may be trying a Non-Deliverable Relay (NDR). They send a message to a nonsense address in your domain and set the Reply-To: to the real victim. You bounce the message, effectivly delivering it for them.

I had a problem ith this a while back and solved it by setting up a reciplient list. Anyone not on it is rejected which in postfix means is get dropped on the floor never to be seen again.

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Nationwide Totalflood
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Los Angeles, CA 90045
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