Thanks to those who made suggestions.
For the moment I've managed to get some filters in place
that seem to be working (I'm so glad I didnt have to attempt
that with sendmail!)
Saving a copy of all the messsages to try and track this
guy down.
cheers,
Tristan
On 28-Jun-00 Dave C. wrote:
>
> I would contact a lawyer and arrange to extract lots of money from the
> nasty person. This person is guilty of forgery and denial of service.
>
> You could also look into setting receiver_verify, which will precnt
> your system from accepting message to <random>@yourdomain, assuming
> that <random> is not a valid account on your syste,
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Tristan Aston wrote:
>
>> I'm running exim 3.14
>> I have a small problem,
>>
>> background:
>> A nasty person is sending huge ammounts of UBE to <random>@domains
>> they have set the message subject to be random, and the from
>> address is <random>@mydomain
>>
>> The main problem is that I'm now getting thousands
>> of bounces.
>> My initial thought was to discard these messages
>> based on the subject by testing for Undeliverable/failure etc..
>> Are any special headers added to a bounced message ?
>> if so what are they ?
>>
>> If anyone has any thoughts on this I'd would love to hear them
>> possible solutions especially :)
>>
>>
>> Tristan
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