Blocking top-level domains

[Kevin Miller]

I'd put them in the sendmail access file.

 ...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
155 South Seward Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Bryan Laurila
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 9:47 AM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: Blocking top-level domains


I had an interesting situation creep up on me this week where I thought that something was happening (or being processed) in MailScanner/SpamAssassin but apparently it was not.

I have two mail relay scanners running MailScanner & SpamAssassin on Suse Linux.  These boxes scan incoming mail for spam & viruses and then relay to my MS Exchange server.  I had an influx of spam this week coming in from several top-level domains that we wouldn't normally receive any valid emails from anyway, like .eu, .in, .asia, .club, etc.

Upon investigating the situation I found that the Trend Micro Scan Mail service on my Exchange server crashed which lead me to the discovery that MailScanner & SpamAssassin weren't filtering mail from these unwanted top level domains as I thought and all that work was being done by my exchange server.

So, the question of the day is...  Where is the best place to turn on filtering or set a rule somehow to filter unwanted top-level domains at the MailScanner/SpamAssassin servers?

Like all things in IT there are probably multiple ways of doing this so I am curious as to what others are doing.  All thoughts & comments are welcome.

Thanks!

Bryan S. Laurila

Senior Network Support Analyst

Dickinson County Healthcare System

1721 South Stephenson Avenue

Iron Mountain, Michigan 49801

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