user5858 asked:
I’m getting plenty of emails to [email protected]
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Out: 220 host.hostname.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
In: EHLO mail-serv.info
Out: 250-host.hostname.com
Out: 250-PIPELINING
Out: 250-SIZE 10240000
Out: 250-VRFY
Out: 250-ETRN
Out: 250-STARTTLS
Out: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
Out: 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
Out: 250-8BITMIME
Out: 250 DSN
In: MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok
In: RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
Out: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User
I’ve a site hosted on my VPS whose name is mysite.com and server hostname is host.hostname.com.
What could be the problem here as I’m getting an email every minute with different to email( here [email protected])?
How to reduce this spam?
My answer:
Take your host offline and stop accepting mail entirely, I’d say, would solve the problem entirely. You’re on the Internet. Having random garbage thrown at your server all day is a part of that.
The useful tool fail2ban, normally used to ban ssh attackers, also has some postfix related jails that you can enable, which will automatically ban certain spammers based on the log entries they create.
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