Blocking domains from sending my server email

Spam!

[glenv]

I stupidly used a co-branded email program a couple years ago to provide my members free email. Needless to say it turned into a fiasco and I had to do away with their service. Most people use these free email accounts as a place to have their porn and spam sent to ( do not really blame them.)

Now though, a couple of my domains email is worthless to me since I receive over 4000 spam emails a day sent to my default address.

I would like to have a system installed fro my server that I can control / block complete domains from ever sending my server email spam. I would just manually enter the domains.

OR--

Is there a better way?

Thanks

[dazz]

Would your website host or ISP do this?

[glenv]

I have shot them a message, hoping to hear back soon

[jimbeetle]

Take a look at mailwasher. Have seen some good comments from others on WW and plan to try the basic version on a site over the weekend.

[glenv]

My Hosting company says:

"A this time there isn't. If you wanted to you could implement some sort of global spam filter but I am not aware of any control panel interface for such a thing."

[dazz]

As jimbeetle says, mailwasher is excellent, you can delete and bounce emails from your server before you download them onto your pc.

You can auto bounce emails from a whole domain also.

[pterodactyl]

Does your host offer the option of bouncing all email sent to the 'default' address? (mine does)

Then you just need to set up the necessary mailboxes... 'admin', 'webmaster', 'info'....etc. and everything not addressed to those will be bounced.

[glenv]

Got it!

My host could not before but apparently they have upgraded. Now I can actually bounce all email messages that are being sent to dead addresses. I just set up forwarders on the one or two I want to keep.

Mailwasher: I bought it, installed it and it may work on small volumes of spam but my problem was I was receiving 2000 an hour because I had over 6,000 deleted old email pop accounts. Mailwasher could not handle it and it timed out many times. I am sure it is a great product but I needed something automated and something that was server initiated that did not need manual maintenence.

[indiandomain]

i cant say much on your problem but i would recommend using qmail.
qmail.org

i was using sendmail before and had major security problems.