Sendmail before MailScanner

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> Yet, this is my problem too. I wish MailScanner would be able to handle. Our
> gateway accepts daily thousands of messages, just to receive in turn a 550
> user unknown from the internal mail hubs. This messages are generated in our
> case by SPAM, pretending to be generated by our university domain...
>
> The best would be to reject the message before enters the queue, but this is
> a Sendmail problem I can hardly handle (LDAP routing?).
> However, a rule something like this would help a lot:
> drop all messages containing in the body a line with
> "Received: from ...unitbv.ro" and not "(193.254.23"
> would stop the chain reaction for each of this messages (thousands of
> postmaster notify, returned message, etc. in the root mailbox).
> Can this be put in sendmail "acces" db? Or in  SpamAssassin's?
> Thank you,

If you like do do that, use ldap for example and let your relays be away
of the users that DO exsist. Its a mailer problem, and you can configure
that. Not mailscanner.

Bye,
Raymond.