Stopping sneaky spammers

Dustin Baer dustin.baer at IHS.COM
Wed Oct 16 13:34:40 IST 2002


Bruno wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have found a major spamming outfit (HighSpeedMail) that is very aggressive
> at avoiding being detected by anti-spam software
> ...
> 4) I am using /etc/mail/access to block the delivery class C subnets for
> this spam, but have to keep adding new ones.

My server also receives a lot of mail from them.  Have you looked at the
from= line in your syslog?  They seem to be pretty consistent with
"from=<offers...>"  Have you added the following to your access.db?

        offers@         REJECT

Might help.

Dustin

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Dustin Baer
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