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[ILUG] blacklisting address

[ILUG] blacklisting address

Robert Sweetnam linux at sweetnam.eu
Mon Aug 11 09:39:41 IST 2008


Jason Corcoran wrote:
> I have been receivig a lot of backscatter emails for variations of 3 email address that I never use on my domain.
>
> What is the best way to blacklist them?
>
> As am example I seem to  be getting return emails for
>
> dev at example.com
> 2dev at example.com
> Sdev at example.com
>
> And one final point dev is a user on the machine, i.e. the emails are
> delivered to dev, but I do not use dev as a email address.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason. 
>   
There is an excellent howto on the Postfix site that helped a lot for me:

http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

hope this helps,
Robert



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