About spam attack

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Tue Jul 8 09:14:35 IST 2008


Correct

I suggest you pass you're outgoing via the mailscanner then the watermarking will mark.

You can put a rule against the spam scanning etc to not scan email from the mailserver, but at least you'll get the watermarks in there.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Ismail OZATAY
> Sent: 08 July 2008 08:10
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: About spam attack
>
> Hi Craig;
>
> I know Watermark but my mail server and mailscanner gateway
> are running on different servers. My domain's mx records
> point mailscanner gateway then it sends mails to mail server.
> mail server sends outgoing mails itself. so mailscanner can
> not put watermark tag in outgoing mails. so if i enable
> watermak for this topology it do not work , is not it ?
>
> Thanks
>
> 	----- Original Message -----
> 	From: Craig Retief <mailto:craig at csfs.co.za>
> 	To: MailScanner discussion
> <mailto:mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> 	Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:48 AM
> 	Subject: Re: About spam attack
>
> 	On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 09:32 +0300, Ismail OZATAY wrote:
>
> 		Hi there;
>
> 		I use MailScanner 4.68.8 with SA 3.24.
> Sometimes spammers attack my
> 		mailserver with lots of bad mails that include
> these subjects:
>
> 		Delivery failure.
> 		Undeliverable mail.
> 		failure notice.
>
> 		And also these e-mails have no sender.
>
> 		How can i block them ?
>
> 	Take a look at Jule's watermark feature that is
> included in the newest MailScanner for Download....
>
> 	Cheers
>
> 	Craig
>
>
> 		Thanks
>
>
>
>
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