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block mails from a particular country in postfix
Is there any possibility to block mails from country wise in Postfix. for Example I need to block all mails coming from China. Please let me know the process.
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Vijay.G
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Vijay.G
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Please take a look here, they were able to get this completed with Postfix:
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/how-to-reject-spam-from-certain-countries-if-you-must-really-really-do-it/
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/how-to-reject-spam-from-certain-countries-if-you-must-really-really-do-it/
The most straightforward way is blocking the /8 IP block of the associated country, via iptables.
The list of IPv4 is here - http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
Ipv6 is here - https://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-extended-communities/bgp-extended-communities.xhtml#non-trans-ipv6
Regardless of your postfix config, if you block via iptables rules, they won't be able to get mail or any other packets to your server...like bruteforce, etc.
The list of IPv4 is here - http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml
Ipv6 is here - https://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-extended-communities/bgp-extended-communities.xhtml#non-trans-ipv6
Regardless of your postfix config, if you block via iptables rules, they won't be able to get mail or any other packets to your server...like bruteforce, etc.
http://www.postfix.org/addon.html has references to enhance functionality.
Blocking by firewall could lead to dos since there is a resource for blocking and attempts will be retried ..
Using rbl that will mimic an SMTP session and issue a permanent error when the recipient is identified in the SMTP session.
Rbl, you would use an internally created ..........
Blocking by firewall could lead to dos since there is a resource for blocking and attempts will be retried ..
Using rbl that will mimic an SMTP session and issue a permanent error when the recipient is identified in the SMTP session.
Rbl, you would use an internally created ..........
is PFblocker is open source? can we install it in my mail server which is UBUNTU back-end. If So Please let me know the procedure.
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