Spammers circumvent MS
Forrest Aldrich
forrie at FORRIE.COM
Sat May 10 00:22:36 IST 2003
Sounds similar to a situation I had been dealing with in a former job...
the big question was how to limit access to aliases.
You don't want a company-wide address to be accessible from the
"outside". I never did resolve this in Sendmail, but it might be
interesting to revisit this one.
Forrest
At 04:35 PM 5/9/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I have brought this up before, with no resolution. Now spammers seem to be
>catching on.
>They are sending spam with multiple users from my domain in the To and CC
>fields of the envelope.
>The more local addresses they stuff in, the higher the chance they will hit
>one that is whitelisted and then the whole email is whitelisted.
>I know people have told me that because there is only one physical email for
>many recipients that we can't block for some users and not others on the
>same email.
>My question is what can we do? I have emails with a score over 10 SA points
>to be deleted. Is there a way to delete emails with a set score even if
>that email hits a whitelisted address?
>Any suggestions would be great.
>
>Thanks
>Derrick Georgiades
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