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What is wrong with my postfix configuration? Why does spam come where the sender is equal to the recipient?
I have my own mail server based on Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. Everything has been working for many years, and there has never been anything like this (even spam). However, in recent years, spam has become more frequent on my personal mailbox of the same server (and some other users). (maybe because my email is listed in the source code on github in open form?). It seems that with the regular tools of Mozilla Thunderbird I can filter it. I tried to set up Spam Assassin, but no letters with it reach at all. Also tried setting up ClamAv. Now all incoming emails are immediately sent to the target mailbox.
Once, spammers managed to send an email with me as the sender. Postfix is required to request authorization when attempting to send this.
Here are the headlines of that ill-fated letter:
From - Sat Dec 31 19:54:36 2016
X-Account-Key: account4
X-UIDL: 0000786051e7be34
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
X-Original-To: [email protected]
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from 88.255.171.82.dynamic.ttnet.com.tr (unknown [88.255.171.82])
by mail.myserver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C1F54015C
for <[email protected]>; Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:54:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: 31 Dec 2016 21:42:03 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: hello
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.61)
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Alt-Boundary-26017.1558190"
--Alt-Boundary-26017.1558190
Content-type: text/plain; charset="cp-850"
Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
Content-description: Mail message body
<содержимое письма тут>
--Alt-Boundary-26017.1558190--
Dec 31 19:54:10 wohlnet postfix/smtpd[3100]: connect from unknown[88.255.171.82]
Dec 31 19:54:11 wohlnet postfix/smtpd[3100]: warning: Unable to look up MX host mail.myserver.ru for Sender address [email protected]: No address associated with hostname
Dec 31 19:54:11 wohlnet postfix/smtpd[3100]: 07C1F54015C: client=unknown[88.255.171.82]
Dec 31 19:54:11 wohlnet postfix/cleanup[3110]: 07C1F54015C: message-id=<[email protected]>
Dec 31 19:54:11 wohlnet postfix/qmgr[4030]: 07C1F54015C: from=<[email protected]>, size=2164, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 31 19:54:11 wohlnet postfix/virtual[3118]: 07C1F54015C: to=<[email protected]>, relay=virtual, delay=0.72, delays=0.65/0.01/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
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1) authorization and telnet? are you joking? telnet generally cannot be kept on the server booty to the Internet! there is ssh, why do you need these perversions?
2) and who told you that letters are sent without authorization on your server?
if I write you a letter and give the name and address of your neighbor, it does not mean that your neighbor is a fool and writes letters to you. The same is true for email.
read about DKIM, DMARC and SPF. and all your problems will immediately go away.
Also, I would block mail servers that do not have a valid return address (PTR), otherwise any mailing list programs will bombard you with spam!
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