Re: [cobalt-users] Spammers forging my email address - Urgent

["Steven Werby" <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Neil!  That took care of hundreds of unwanted emails an hour.  FYI,
the emails were sent by someone trying to drive traffic to
asiafriendfinder.com.  I emailed the contact person for the domain name and
after supplying him email header info with an IP address and several email
addresses I dug up on my own he informed me that it appeared to be coming
from an affiliate in Shanghai and he deleted the account.

Neil J. Kemp <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Edit /etc/virtusertable
> You can make custom changes at the bottom so go down there and add:
> user@xxxxxxxxxx error:nouser
>
> And then finally type:
> makemap /etc/virtusertable < /etc/virtusertable

FYI for anyone encountering the same problem - to get it to work I had to
add "hash" to above.  I typed:
makemap hash /etc/virtusertable < /etc/virtusertable

> basically that'll mean any email to that user will bounce with a "error no
> user at this address" something you can't do with default RaQ GUI sadly.
;-(

Worked like a charm.  Glad I know how to do this now!  Admitting my
ignorance here - the emails are bounced now, but does my server download the
entire message before bouncing it or just the headers?  If the bounced
emails keep coming into my server I'm just curious if it's going to use
hundreds of megabytes of bandwidth each day.

Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}