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How to stop being spammed by senders with gibberish addresses
I have all my relay access setup to only allow relays from the local subset but there are some external attackers sending thousands of emails to my address and for some reason exchange is allowing it. the sender is almost always some .tw TLD but the name on all of them is very long full of special characters i.e. 110%¶WÃB©Ð¶U¼t¿ì©±±¡C¨T¨®
it is causing me to be spam black listed. is there anything that i can do in exchange to stop it without using some sort of MX relay?
i added a Block List Server in connection filtering and i have tried adding the source IP addresses of the spammers but it changes ever hour and that doesn't help.
it is causing me to be spam black listed. is there anything that i can do in exchange to stop it without using some sort of MX relay?
i added a Block List Server in connection filtering and i have tried adding the source IP addresses of the spammers but it changes ever hour and that doesn't help.
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Incoming email can't put you on a blacklist. Your mail server or a system on your network has some issues going on.
I highly recommend heading to http://mxtoolbox.com/ and running the SMTP diagnostic test to see if your Exchange server is an open relay. That would explain the blacklisting if it is.
As far as the emails being sent in, my other recommendation is - unless you need to receive mail from people in the .tw domain is to block all connections from .tw hosts. http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/tw.html has a list of the IP address ranges used by that TLD.