[plug] spam mail

Matt Kemner zombie at penguincare.com.au
Tue Feb 25 09:03:39 WST 2003


On 25 Feb 2003, quoth Jon Miller:

> In looking at spam mail headers and seeing that my system reports
> (unknown [208.158.84.104]  Can I tell the Postfix system that if an
> unknown tries to communicate do not accept the message or redirect the
> mail?

You could do that, but you'd end up rejecting a huge amount of legit email
too.  "unknown" means the IP address does not have a reverse DNS entry
which is becoming more and more common thanks to lazy sysadmins.

Regards,

 - Matt



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