Hi, I have recently started having lots problems with people spamming with the from address of my domain and the domain catchall getting ~2 - 5k bounces arriving in my mailbox each day. I really don't want to remove the catchall, just get rid of all the random bounces. All my incomming mail is filtered through procmail and I want a good procmail recipe to match on bounces and chuck them away. Unfortunatly I don't seem to be able to find any reliable way to match a message as being a bounce without just lots of from filters detecting the common from styles of the different SMTP servers out there. Any suggestions ? Cheers, Jamie
Jamie Curtis wrote:
Hi,
I have recently started having lots problems with people spamming with the from address of my domain and the domain catchall getting ~2 - 5k bounces arriving in my mailbox each day. I really don't want to remove the catchall, just get rid of all the random bounces.
All my incomming mail is filtered through procmail and I want a good procmail recipe to match on bounces and chuck them away. Unfortunatly I don't seem to be able to find any reliable way to match a message as being a bounce without just lots of from filters detecting the common from styles of the different SMTP servers out there.
http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=procmailrc#9 * ^FROM_MAILER as a rule will catch bounces, or * ^FROM_DAEMON if you want to catch other auto generated crud ("I'm out of the office right now") too.
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:40, Jamie Curtis wrote:
All my incomming mail is filtered through procmail and I want a good procmail recipe to match on bounces and chuck them away. Unfortunatly I don't seem to be able to find any reliable way to match a message as being a bounce without just lots of from filters detecting the common from styles of the different SMTP servers out there.
Perhaps running spam assassin on your mail account would be helpful? -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM: +64 21 611 544
* Matt Brown <matt(a)mattb.net.nz> [2004-09-23 03:55]:
Perhaps running spam assassin on your mail account would be helpful?
SpamAssassin takes much more processing power than procmail would. With 5k bounces a day, that would be noticable (though not huge). The sooner you can throw away as much easily identifiable undesired mail as possible, the better. Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
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