OT: How to defeat address harvesting; like this..???
DNSAdmin
dnsadmin at 1BIGTHINK.COM
Thu Jun 9 16:58:46 IST 2005
Hello All,
Less than 24 hours of changing over a domain to a new mail server, and I've
got a gnat I need to swat!
|Unknown users:
|
| arnold@******.com
| from [222.233.140.203] 1 time(s).
|
| bowen@******.com
| from [222.233.140.203] 1 time(s).
|
| boyd@******.com
| from [222.233.140.203] 1 time(s).
|
(List condensed for mail list purposes. They tried to guess about 20 users
last night)
This is a harvesting attack to determine valid usernames to compile a spam
list.
How do I defeat this??? Any decent suggestions appreciated! I might even
consider the baseball bat if he/she were in my backyard!
I have CentOS 3.4, Sendmail 8.12, MailScanner 4.41, SpamAssassin 2.55
TIA!
Glenn Parsons
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