[PLUG] Postfix configuration

[Matt King]

I have my Spamassassin hit threshold at 4.5, it seems to catch just about
everything.  Maybe you should lower your threshold?  That'd probably be
easier than worrying about other headers.

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Matt King
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Russ Johnson busted out the keyboard and typed:
>   OK, I received another of those stupid "Give me your account number
> and I'll wire you 20 million..." messages today. This one from the
> "nephew" of some official in Angola. There must be billions of US
> dollars floating around Africa...
>
> The problem I'm having with this one is that it appears from the headers
>  that the mail server they used was using my mail servers name to
> deliver  to me. I haven't paid much attention in the past to this, but
> I'm  wondering if many of these spammers do this (probably not).
> However, if  any do, couldn't we configure our MTAs to reject mail that
> comes from  systems claiming to be it's own host name? I mean, how many
> times does a  mail server send mail to itself?
>
> If this is possible, where would I do this in postfix?
>
> See the headers I've included below, specifically, the Received: line.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: - Mon Dec 09 09:32:32 2002
> X-UIDL: 3df4d3a300000042
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Return-Path: <olivsav at netscape.net>
> Delivered-To: russj at dimstar.net
> Received: from mail.dimstar.net (unknown [81.68.18.227]) by
> mail.dimstar.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 88F2FC374 for
> <russj at dimstar.net>; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:08:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Oliveira Savimbi <olivsav at netscape.net>
> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:08:13
> To: russj at dimstar.net
> Subject: PRIVATE EMAIL MESSAGE
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Message-Id: <20021209160811.88F2FC374 at mail.dimstar.net>
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.5 required=5.0
> tests=CLICK_BELOW,INVALID_DATE,NIGERIAN_TRANSACTION_1,
> SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS,SUPERLONG_LINE,US_DOLLARS_3 version=2.43
> X-Spam-Level: ****
> Status:
>
> Russ Johnson
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