I wonder if anyone can suggest a solution to my problem that surely must be quite common but despite searching I cant find an answer for.
I have a domain that seems to come under attack for dictionary type spam attacks and want to know if theres an easy way of controlling this via c-panel forwarders or filters etc.
Each day I will get about a thousand or more spam mails addressed to say [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] None of these names have ever been used, they are obviously just try get lucky addresses. The spam mails will all be practically the same ie phishing type mails from vodafone or UPS or similar.
I cant turn the catchall off for other reasons. Periodically I can call a halt to it by setting up filters say from vodafone or UPS, but this isnt ideal as Im always playing catchup as a few days later they will come from another supposed real organisation. It also can cause problems if there was an occasion that Im wanting mail from the real vodafone or whatever.
What does remain constant is the recipient which will be one of about 50 names ie the [email protected] and [email protected] These often wont be in the TO field, but in the header as a recipient (possibly sent as a pile of BCCs).
Now I know I could set up a pile of forwarders, but it gets tedious typing in a forwarder for each name.
I had a look at filters and wondered it it would be possible to set something up from there.
Id need to set a script something like
If recipient = ([email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]) {:fail: No such person at this address}
or even better, create a list of the affected domains and if the recipient is on the list then automatically bin it.
Is there anyway something like this can be done? Im a bit of a n00b so apologies if there is an easy way of doing this that Im not aware of.
TIA
I have a domain that seems to come under attack for dictionary type spam attacks and want to know if theres an easy way of controlling this via c-panel forwarders or filters etc.
Each day I will get about a thousand or more spam mails addressed to say [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] None of these names have ever been used, they are obviously just try get lucky addresses. The spam mails will all be practically the same ie phishing type mails from vodafone or UPS or similar.
I cant turn the catchall off for other reasons. Periodically I can call a halt to it by setting up filters say from vodafone or UPS, but this isnt ideal as Im always playing catchup as a few days later they will come from another supposed real organisation. It also can cause problems if there was an occasion that Im wanting mail from the real vodafone or whatever.
What does remain constant is the recipient which will be one of about 50 names ie the [email protected] and [email protected] These often wont be in the TO field, but in the header as a recipient (possibly sent as a pile of BCCs).
Now I know I could set up a pile of forwarders, but it gets tedious typing in a forwarder for each name.
I had a look at filters and wondered it it would be possible to set something up from there.
Id need to set a script something like
If recipient = ([email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected]) {:fail: No such person at this address}
or even better, create a list of the affected domains and if the recipient is on the list then automatically bin it.
Is there anyway something like this can be done? Im a bit of a n00b so apologies if there is an easy way of doing this that Im not aware of.
TIA