[TriLUG] Blocking Attachments in Exim/A really wack network admin

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sat Apr 10 15:37:27 EDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 13:13, Jaimie Livingston wrote:
> > ...Maybe you could try tracing down
> > the relaying server and alert them?
> 
> This brings up a question that I've wondered about before...
> In situations like this, is it possible with Sendmail, Postfix, or other
> technology to automatically bounce back ONE of the offending messages for
> EACH spoofed address back to the relaying domains Mail Admin (rather than
> the spoofed user address), and then reject or discard subsequent offending
> messages from that domain for a set period of time? How might this work with
> trojans that carry their own stipped down MTA?
> 
> 
> Jaimie
>  
Yes, OpenBSD has a script for doing this. I prefer MailScanner's setup
of identifying the virus and then only sending back a bounce if the
virus does not spoof the address.

Jon






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