Reject bounce email

Drew Marshall drew at technologytiger.net
Tue Jan 9 11:28:11 CET 2007


On Tue, January 9, 2007 04:26, anas asree wrote:
> Hi all
> I've installed Postfix+Mailscanner+Mailwatch on SuSe 10.0
>
> My users have been receiving a lot of undelivered mail message from
> outside of our network. These emails have made our users complaint to us,
> although they did not send such email..
>
> How can I reject such emails from bouncing back to our users mailbox ?

Are you rejecting unknown senders in Postfix? Usually these bounce spams/
Jo Job attacks are targeted at random names and you can reject the
majority by using recipient maps of some kind.

If you can post an example set of headers there might be some other things
that can be done.

Drew



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