virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect

Erin Fortenberry Erin at Fortenberry.net
Tue Mar 28 20:03:29 UTC 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Mikhail Teterin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:23 PM
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: sendmail at sendmail.org
> Subject: virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I host a domain with a handful of "real" addresses. I 
> noticed, that spammers are using a variety of 
> random-generated names @mydomain and wish to block such 
> addresses with "No spam" responses instead of "User unknown".
> 
> Here is (almost) what I have in the virtusertable:
> 
> 	stol at example.com  foo
> 	hq at example.com    bar
> 	@example.com      error:5.7.0:550 No spam, thanks
> 
> I can see the "No spam,thanks" messages logged in the maillog 
> (without the space after coma, for some reason), but there is 
> no reject=550 message logged (which interferes with my other 
> software) and some of these messages seem to pass through 
> (although others are intercepted by other anti-spam defenses).
> 
> For example, here are the only two log entries, that a spam 
> message generates:
> 
> Mar 28 13:45:58 corbulon sendmail[40026]: k2SIjvvb040026: 
> <xgfytxswpcpc at blackalpinist.com>... No spam,thanks
> Mar 28 13:45:58 corbulon sendmail[40026]: k2SIjvvb040026: 
> from=<example at example.net>, size=3305, class=0, nrcpts=0, 
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=example.example.net [xx.x.xx.xxx]
> 
> Despite the "No spam,thanks" the message was accepted.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks!


Your users that are getting SPAM are in a BCC field.



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