[PLUG] email joe-job.

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Tue May 20 17:09:07 UTC 2008


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Thanks all.  Alan you are correct.  I jumped too deep into it.  The fact
>> it looks like I'm sending all these messages out made it feel like a joe
>> job.  I run a pretty tight mail server and double checked to make sure it
>> wasn't an open relay of any flavor.
> 
> Rod,
> 
>    In my postfix header checks I have a line that looks like this:
> 
> /^Received: from nnn.nn.nnn.nn/                 reject Rule H9

Thanks Rich.  I'll have to see if the headers have same/similar Received 
lines.


Rod
-- 
> 
> where the obfuscated part is my public IP address. Since my MTA will never
> receive mail from the outward-looking IP address I know it has to have been
> spoofed. Catches quite a few every day.
> 
>    Don't know if that will help you or not, but I offer it in case it's
> something you've not yet implemented.
> 
> Rich
> 




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