Re: Need automatic spam reporting tool

Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Steve M. Fabac, Jr. wrote:
I'm flooded with returned messages from e-mail servers
bouncing spam messages where the spammer uses fake "From:"
tags with random names on my 24by7webstores.com site:
"From: "Mort tikkanen" <Mort-vorhies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"

I use spf. It allows domain owners to specify their outgoing email
servers and thus allow receives to decide how to handle. I discard email
on SPF Fail. It allows you to do a lot of other things. There are some
python filters that really assist/automate reputations for email. You
could search the SPF Discuss list to find them. I use a combination of
things. But having a SPF record cuts down on bounces.

Boyd,

You miss my point. I don't have a problem with bounced messages coming back.
None of the original spam messages is coming from my website or from me.
What angers me is that someone or some group of people have misappropriated
my domain to facilitate their spamming.

Because the volume ranges from 1000 to 3000 bounced messages being
sent back to the bogus From: address, I seek to build a tool to
automate dropping these messages back on the ISP hosting the open
relays or spammer's machine to assist them in building a case to
shut them down.

The 1000 to 3000 messages is probably a small percentage of the total
spam these people are generating as only a small percentage of
receiving systems bounce the messages (10 - 20%?).

Because I have to manually cut and paste the IP address into
www.samspade.org, I limit my responses to IP addresses
with 20 or more messages. Since Samspade.org obviously is
automated, I should be able to do the same thing to automate
my submissions to the subject ISP abuse reporting addresses.



SPF FAQ: http://www.openspf.org/FAQ
Common mistakes: http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Common_mistakes

Unfortunately, whois on SCO does not provide the necessary information.

You can compile the Open Source version and run it. It works really well.
I currently do not have an OSR 5.0.7 machine available to do compiles.

Any suggestions on how to lookup the information I need
automatically with tools on the SCO 5.0.7 system?

Or is there an open source tool that can be compiled for SCO
that will provide the information I need?

I really like

python-pydns
python-pydspam
python-pyspf
python-pygossip
python-pysrs

I use the above to automate the whole process. Look at what

Stuart D. Gathman <stuartATbmsiDOTcom>

He has really perfected them. He is the developer.


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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
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Steve Fabac
S.M. Fabac & Associates
816/765-1670

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