[svlug] Postfix and remote email

[Michael Robinson]

On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 21:21 -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 12/27/14 20:20, Michael Robinson wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting spam on my mailhub which it is trying to bounce to a remote
> > destination that may not even be the source of the junk.  I'm using
> > Postfix-2.6.6.  What am I possibly doing wrong here?
> 
> Discard or quarantine spam, don't bounce it back to the sender.
> From: and Reply-To: are usually forged.
> 
> Several years ago I spent a week in Kauai.  No WiFi, no broadband,
> just coffee shops with poor service and dial-up.  That was the week
> that someone decided that my email address should be used as the From:
> on their many thousands of spam messages.  So I had a couple thousand
> bounce messages in my inbox, downloaded one-at-a-very-slow-time.  Plus
> a few hundred "Stop sending spam" messages in various states of rancor.
> 
Agreed I shouldn't bounce spam.  I know bouncing is happening though and
I want to reconfigure to reject spam instead.  I'm not wanting to bounce
spam, but I can't figure out how to configure Postfix to stop doing
this.