Robert Canary wrote:
I did finally get the spamassassin going, however, it looks somewhat
useless to me. It seems all it dose is tag email on the subject line
with the word SPAM. We already know its spam we don't need it to tell
us that, we need it to drop it in a black hole.
As Mike specified earlier in this thread it is not spamassassin who will
drop spam but the milter software based on the score given by
spamassassin. You should check it's configuration for such options. I
use qmail with qmail-scanner, and spamassassin and qmail-scanner drops a
lot of spams every day. Every week or so I get *1* spam that has a score
low enough to escape this setup and gets in my mail. If the milter
software you installed doesn't have the option you should try something
else but I doubt it is the case.
Anyway, I haven't heard if you tried to set up SPF. Don't know how easy
is to have it working with sendmail (on qmail I just have to apply a
patch before compiling it) but I think it's a great tool that isn't
spread as much as it should be and should address your problem at the
"root of the evil :)".
Especially when using a fake email in the from header. I tried
testing it from the telnet prompt and manually feed bogus mail
headers. Ironically sendmail took both the to and from bogus headers.
Sendmail did kick it out if I used a bogus domain.
How do you tell sendmail not to except connections for bogus incoming
email. I would have sendmail.org would have thought of this the same
way they did of requiring a valid domain name.
Robert Canary wrote:
I have been looking at the spamassassin for about two days now. I
know the solution has somethin to do with spamc which interfaces with
spamd. But I still haven't seen how to get snedmail to use spamc.
The filter documentation talks about "milters". So how do yo
activate the spamc
Lord of Gore wrote:
Robert Canary wrote:
Our administrator boxes get flooded with emails from spammers who
are still sending massive emails to address that do not exist. Of
course sendmail sends a response back to the from header saying the
account dosen't exist. However, the sendmail server is getting
those responses bounced back to them because these are junk emails
with no real return address. As a result the undeliverable mail
gets sent to "postmaster". Thus the "postmaster" email is a hoard
mess of junk email bounced replies.
How is being handled ?
--
robert
Install spamassassin and reject spams. also configure SPF. This
should solve your problems.
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