Blocking attachments, maybe subject line statement?

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Fri Jan 23 20:38:49 GMT 2004


Chris Harris wrote:

>According to the server logs the envelope addresses are different everytime.
>I have 3 that I have found and they are all different. But everytime I have
>ran that IP address through Spamhaus, it has came back as listed.
>
>Which brings me to another question. Should I do my spamhaus checks through
>sendmail or mailscanner?
>
>
See
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/249.html

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Bonivart" <peter at UCGBOOK.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Blocking attachments, maybe subject line statement?
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>
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>>Chris Harris wrote:
>>
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>>>They are coming to my customers. The from address is different
>>>
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>everytime. I
>
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>>>have 3 diffent domain names and two of them are getting them. the only
>>>
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>>With "from address", do you mean what you see in the client (headers) or
>>what you see in the server log (envelope)? The From headers are usually
>>random but not so with the envelope address. Can they really spam you
>>from so many addresses?
>>
>>Check the logs for what address to blacklist if you haven't tried that
>>already.
>>
>>--
>>/Peter Bonivart
>>
>>--Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>>
>>Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14,
>>SpamAssassin 2.61 + DCC 1.2.21, ClamAV 0.65 + GMP
>>
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