How do I stop this???

[Stephen Swaney]

Gerry,

What was the entry you put in your access maps.

Did you  remake the access.db after changing the access map?

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Gerry Doris
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: OT: How do I stop this???
>
> I know this is OT but you folks are the most knowledgeable and helpful
> sendmail folks I know!
>
> Someone has misconfigured their email client and is pumping out messed up
> emails at the rate of one every 5 minutes.  Each of these is generating an
> error message in my logs and a warning message to me!  I know how to turn
> off the error messages but I can see where this could easily turn into a
> DoS attack if someone was doing this intentionally and I'm interested in
> knowing how to stop it.
>
> I've tried to put the domain name and its ip in sendmail's access database
> but that doesn't work.  I can't think of any other way to discard these
> emails before they cause sendmail to start complaining.
>
> Here's the actual errors...
>
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Mar 27 12:15:05 tiger sendmail[24994]: i2RHF53U024994: Syntax error in
> mailbox
> address "dayzersagency?@spinfinder.com" (non-printable character)
> Mar 27 12:20:06 tiger sendmail[25157]: i2RHK63U025157: Syntax error in
> mailbox
> address "dayzersagency?@spinfinder.com" (non-printable character)
> Mar 27 12:25:07 tiger sendmail[25292]: i2RHP73U025292: Syntax error in
> mailbox
> address "dayzersagency?@spinfinder.com" (non-printable character)
>
> --
> Gerry
>
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
>
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