Re: postmaster spam

Marco Paganini <[email protected]> Tue, 11 May 2004 21:45:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi René.

Blocking spam with "postmaster" in the reply-to field is an easy thing
to do. I'll add it to ASK. Please enter a feature request on sourceforge
specifying this.

Regards,
Paga

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:46:52PM -0300, René Bellora wrote:
> hi!
> 
>    i'm using ask 2.4.1-1, and as of today, i've started receiving spam 
> masqueraded as 'postmaster'. I did some searching in the mailing lists 
> archive, and i saw a thread indicating that postmaster in 'reply-to' 
> header (as is the case) is never used by real postmasters messages. So, 
> my questions are:
> 
> * is there some easy fix that blocks 'postmaster in reply-to' messages?
> *or, is there some easy fix that blocks all postmaster messages (without 
> sending challenge)?
> *or, are there other options?
> 
> 
>    regards,
>    René
> 
> 
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