Re: FW: Postmaster notify: User unknown

[Mark Durham <mdurham () SENDMAIL COM>]

The most recent versions of sendmail (8.10 and 8.11) have substantially more
powerful antispam capabilities, as described here:

http://sendmail.net/?feed=810usingantispam

This article references version 8.10, but actually applies to both 8.10 and
8.11.

To upgrade to the current version:

http://www.sendmail.org/current-release.html


"Jay D. Dyson" wrote:

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> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Paul Snedden wrote:
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> > This mail appeared in my Inbox last Friday morning.  I present this unto
> > you all for your evaluation and recommendation.  I believe an intruder
> > has accessed my email server for their own purposes.  Am I correct?
>
>         Looks like some bottom-feeding spammer tried to use your mail
> system as a third-party relay.  Worse, it looks like the attempt was
> successful.  You're probably going to get some pretty rabid hate mail from
> the victims of the spam run soon, if not inclusion in the ORBS database.
>
>         If you use Berkeley sendmail, update your relay ruleset.  You can
> also switch MTAs by going with Qmail (http://www.qmail.org) or Postfix
> (http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/start.html).  Your call.
>
> - -Jay
>
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>    ))   .-- "There's always time for a good cup of coffee" --.   >===<--.
>  C|~~| (>------- Jay D. Dyson -- jdyson () treachery net -------<) |   = |-'
>   `--'  `------ ...You can have my absence of faith... ------'  `-----'
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