Blocking email to certain addresses

[drmike]

Greets:

I get a lot of spam to bogus email addresses here like:

hchc (at) mydomain (dot) com

CPanel has a method of creating a filter with an option of :fail: which would reject the piece of crud from the getgo.

Does DA have a method like this? I can do it directly in exim I'm sure but this would be kind of a pain editing files and having my users do the same. I'd rather tell them how to do it in DA's html.

Thanks,
-drmike

 

[jmstacey]

Do you mean from?
The Spam Filter page in the user level might be what your after.

http://site-helper.com/email.html#filters

 

[drmike]

Do you mean from?

Nope, 'to'. The spam is coming to these bogus addresses.

I saw the page already.

thanks,
-drmike

 

[nobaloney]

DirectAdmin does not have a "fail" option available for specific addresses.

Unless you need to have catchall turned on, I'd suggest setting it to refuse email for which there's no real email address set up on the domain.

I believe (but I'm not positive) that you can set up a forward for an individual address, forwarding it to :fail:

Jeff

 

[cprompt]

I believe (but I'm not positive) that you can set up a forward for an individual address, forwarding it to :fail:

You can yes, I use this feature personaly and it works as expected.

 

[drmike]

You can yes, I use this feature personaly and it works as expected.

Gotta have the catch all. I read way too many forums out there, filled out way too many forms, etc. and each one has its own tagged email address.

Do you use fail or :fail:?

Does it actually reject the connection, bounce the email or trash it?

Thanks,
-drmike

 

[cprompt]

I use :fail:
It works just like fail does elsewhere, rejects the email with a standard error.

 

[drmike]

cool. thanks.

I always though the :fail: was something to do with CPanel. I'm assuming from your answer that it's more of a Exim function then, right?

-drmike

 

[nobaloney]

It was originally in the Sendmail spec; I don't really know if it's from an RFC or not.

As long as you have catchall turned on you will continue to have problems.

I also have individual addresses for just about every place I visit.

And I have hundreds now, but I have catchall turned off.

Jeff