[plug] Spam Attack

[Travis Read]

At the moment, the address jdl02765 at mydomain.com.au does not exist, as a
result the primary MX was generating it's own bounce back message thus
increasing the size of the attack. I'm not 100% sure how but I should be
able to get the backup MX to reject all e-mail to jdl02765 at mydomain.com.au 

Trav

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Colin Muller wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 07:33:32PM +0800, Travis Read wrote:
> > account. How can I get sendmail to scan through the mail spool and delete
> > any e-mail sent to the address jdl02765 at mydomain.com.au?
> 
> Is there some reason you can't just specify the addresses (usernames)
> for which you will accept mail, and have sendmail reject all others?
> That way the messages will never even make it onto your machine. See:
> 
> http://www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html
> 
> Colin
> 
> 

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Travis Read

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