[sanesecurity] Re: Lots of spam on new domain
- From: Dudi Goldenberg <dudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:27:39 -0800
Hi,
>I have a brand new domain I purchased for a customer back in July, it’s never
>even had a dns entry associated with it until a few weeks ago. We recently
>setup their new email addresses and was doing some troubleshooting when I
>noticed a large amount of spam being sent to an invalid address.
>
>Considering it is most likely 100% spam, is there any way I can auto bounce
>these to someone here to get them added to the signatures?
IMHO you are solving the wrong problem.
Rule #1 in SPAM prevention - do NOT accept mail for non existing users.
Most of that spam is originating from fake senders, by bouncing them you are
bombarding innocent users.
Just my 2c...
Regards,
D.
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