howto stop wrong replay mails ?

['chris']

hi

we get more and more wrong replay mails,
but we never send them.
these mails are not spam and not virus or worm mails.
knows someone howto stop them ?

kind regards
chris

[Ivan Ferreira]

Wrong replay? People that reply a message that was not sent? Sorry if I don't understand, my first language is not english.

There are viruses/trojans that can send mail in behalf of other people. There is no way to prevent that.

Masquerade the "from:" of a message is very easy.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom chris,

Please tell me what it is or provide an example and I'll tell you how to eradicate it.

SEP

['chris']

for example this:
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Received: from mail1.highwayone.de (mail1.highwayone.de [62.138.2.165]) by rly-xk05.mx.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXK55-59b43843a032d8; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:44:35 -0500
Received: (qmail 11826 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2005 09:43:04 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO twubjju.ch) ([62.138.253.55]) (envelope-sender )
by mail1.highwayone.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
for ; 23 Nov 2005 09:43:03 -0000
From: webmaster@domain.net
To: MailIn_Box@aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:33:45 GMT
Subject: smtp mail failed
Importance: Normal
X-Mailer: SpeedMail_V4.64
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <1fa477ac109.f73fc5@domain.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="====dfd1f4f77dd7.63778"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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our mail address is: webmaster@domain.net

I think someone from outside with the mail address: 62.138.253.55 try to send mails using our mail address to: MailIn_Box@aol.com, but this mail address doesn't exist by AOL and we get:
Returned mail: User unknown
mails in our postmaster, ca. 1000 a day

that is very annoying

[Ivan Ferreira]

By tracking the header "Received:" you can see if the message was sent by your domain. If the origin is not a local computer, then another person is sending the mail.

[Ivan Ferreira]

You can use sendmail access table to stop receiving mail from the origin account.

You can also filter based on the subject by using procmail. See:

http://www.perlcode.org/tutorials/procmail/filtering.html

http://www.poornam.com/articles_spam.php

['chris']

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Received: from unknown (HELO twubjju.ch) ([62.138.253.55]) (envelope-sender )
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this: (HELO twubjju.ch) ([62.138.253.55]) is not our IP address
and not our domain

but this: (envelope-sender ) is our mail address

I think someone from outside is trying to send mails with our mail address and our webmaster gets replay mails because the recipient doesn't exist.

knows someone howto stop them ?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

The mail passed through a valid aol mail server.

Contact http://postmaster.aol.com

Report the violation and the user will lose his account in a few minutes.

It could be someone in germany figured out how to relay through an aol mail server and once again, aol needs to know about it so they screw the security tighter on their system.

Received: from mail1.highwayone.de (mail1.highwayone.de [62.138.2.165]) by rly-xk05.mx.aol.com (v107.13) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXK55-59b43843a032d8; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:44:35 -0500
Received: (qmail 11826 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2005 09:43:04 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO twubjju.ch) ([62.138.253.55]) (envelope-sender )
by mail1.highwayone.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
for ; 23 Nov 2005 09:43:03 -0000


If this is coming from a single source, simply add an access record:

mail1.highwayone.de REJECT 550 no more spam.

You may need to do an m4 sendmail macro build, but that entire domain will never send mail again with my recommended change.

Does it all come through aol?

The fastest fix in that event is the aol postmaster.

SEP

[Vernon Brown_4]

Looks like someone spamming to AOL trying to bust through their spam filter by using your return address.