Re: unknown user send to non exist email account

From: Tsu Dho Nimh (abacaxi@hotmail.com)
Date: 04/01/02 

From: Tsu Dho Nimh <abacaxi@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:23:03 -0700

"Geoff" <poochie@asia1.com> wrote:

>hi all,
>Recently I received a chain of emails from unknown user to my mail server
>(linux 7.2 sendmail). All emails were forwarded to my postmaster as all
>intended recipients/email accounts he tried to send to does not exist. Is
>this called spam?

Yes.

>How do I stop this people to keep doing this to my mail
>server?

Ask in news.admin.net-abuse.email and you can get really good
instructions from the mail systems gurus who hang out there.

Tsu Dho Nimh 

-- 
"Y'know, I can *say* I'm Ming The Merciless, Emporer of Planet Mongo, but 
unless I can produce a few legions of heavily-armed rocket ships, you're not 
likely to take me seriously."  Morely Dotes, 2001

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