Someone’s spamming with my return address, will you blacklist me?

No. The From field in most spam is forged and meaningless. Some spamware uses addresses from the spammer’s “To” list to also fill in the “From” address. Usually that is just a random selection, but occasionally spammers “bounce bomb” a particular recipient with thousands of forged return-paths forged in the victim’s name, either out of …

Postfix Backscatter Howto

Overview This document describes features that require Postfix version 2.0 or later. Topics covered in this document: What is backscatter mail? How do I block backscatter mail to random recipient addresses? How do I block backscatter mail to real recipient addresses? Blocking backscatter mail with forged mail server information Blocking backscatter mail with forged sender …

How-To setup a wildcard DNS record for dynamic subdomains in Plesk 8

This tutorial describes how to setup a wildcard DNS record in Plesk 8 using Bind and Apache. This allows you to use *.domain.com to access your www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com) website. For example, any of the following would be automatically redirected to www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com) test.domain.com john.domain.com jane.domain.com bugs.domain.com

Qmail commands

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailqueuemng –help qmHandle v1.2.0 Copyright 1998-2003 Michele Beltrame Available parameters: -a : try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running) -l : list message queues -L : list local message queue -R : list remote message queue -T : list todo message queue -s : show some statistics -mN : display message …