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Re: [suse-security] Filter out bad emails



On Thu, 01 Jul 2004, Rasp, made the net somewhat safer by saying:

> Hello,
> 
> i use qmail with spamassassin and qmail-scanner.
> As you all know, most of the spamers generate emailadresse by them mself and try to deliver ther sh** to the "new recepient".
> 
> The LINUX-Box is only our relay. In the back is a Exchange-Server working.
> The EX-Server trys to answers to the non existent mailadress of the spammer.
> Spamassassin has already markted this mails as spam.
> How can i use MAILDROP (or someting else) to kill this mails.

Qmail can be patched to reject unknown recipients.
Postfix or Sendmail or Exim don't need patching, and do this of-the-shelve.

Theo
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