Problem about spam mail blocking

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Problem about spam mail blocking

Postby winston2002 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:21 am

Hi, I installed Scalix with Spamassassin and Spamass-milter on CentOS 5.0.
I did the installation as what manual says.Everything works fine except the receiving part. I do receive mails and block some spam mails.
Some suggested spam mails were put into spam folder.

Problem 1:
I did a redirect for all my emails.

The problem is in the received emails, some detected as spam mail can not be sent out.
and information is given as:

because: A mail transport failure occurred
550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin

For example, I got 10 mails from outside. 5 are still spam mails. The spam mails are not blocked, but when they were redirected
to other mailbox, they were stopped by spamassassin. I think my spamassassin is not working when receiving emails, otherwise,
it will stop these spammails coming in.

Actually, I have already set up my smtpd.cfg file with spamassassin. In this file, I got
SMTPFILTER=TRUE
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin', `S=local:/var/run//spamass.sock, F=, T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')

What should I do to active spamassassin in receiving emails?


Problem 2:
This is not about Scalix system. It is about hacking our machines.
I checked the log and found someone is testing our mail server by sending a lot of emails to our server's invalid email address.
It is like they tried all possible email name combinations with *@company.com. These addresses do not exist.

Any one can help with block such attacks?


Thanks

winston2002

Re: Problem about spam mail blocking

Postby winston2002 » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:59 pm

Anyone can help me?

Thanks.

winston2002

Re: Problem about spam mail blocking

Postby winston2002 » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:58 pm

1. first problem fixed. the stmpd file just take action line by line. I changed the order and it works.

2. still no idea about how to stop people trying different id on my email server.

3. New problem. how can I stop people from outside sending mails to mailer-daemon@company.com
And my administrator user still get such reply:

Message could not be delivered to the following recipient:

mailer-daemon@

because: A mail transport failure occurred


Supplementary Information:


550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin


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