Blocking a specific email address

[SpEnTBoY]

Ok guys I know this is easy to do I'm just not sure how to do it in Zimbra. I want to bounce email from a specific email address (somefreak@adomain.com). Is there a place in the admin interface I can do this for all accounts on my domain? Like if any email comes from somefreak@adomain.com they just get a bounce message saying something like "Rejected Due To Content" or "Source Address Rejected"?

Thanks guys,

[SpEnTBoY]

Ok I tried this listed here:

Postfix blacklist or reject an email address

The zimbra installation is a little different and I'm not sure where the options have to be entered ... I'm guessing it's an internal type of thing? I'll keep looking later

Still like a hand if anyone has an idea

[phoenix]

Isn't this wiki article on blacklisting what you need?

[SpEnTBoY]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Isn't this wiki article on blacklisting what you need?

I hammered through the wiki for a while and didn't really find anything. This will definitely work it just wont respond with an error to the sender but I'm sure I can deal with that lol

Thanks!!

[phoenix]

The problem in responding to the sender is that you may be responding to the wrong person. If the headers are forged you'll just end-up spamming someone who may not be 'guilty'. IMO, for a blacklisted address it's far better to just drop the mail or connection.

[SpEnTBoY]

Originally Posted by phoenix

The problem in responding to the sender is that you may be responding to the wrong person. If the headers are forged you'll just end-up spamming someone who may not be 'guilty'. IMO, for a blacklisted address it's far better to just drop the mail or connection.

Very valid actually. There's anough traffic being generated by unsolicited and garbage email. Now that I think of it I've actually gotten bounce notices from servers regarding accounts I've never heard of claiming I sent them spam and it was rejected.

[SpEnTBoY]

um ... ok I'm missing something. I only have a amavisd.conf file and not an amavis.conf ... should I create an amavis.conf file? if I put the hash entry in amavisd.conf and restart amavisd the line dissapears and the change is moot

[SpEnTBoY]

Originally Posted by SpEnTBoY

um ... ok I'm missing something. I only have a amavisd.conf file and not an amavis.conf ... should I create an amavis.conf file? if I put the hash entry in amavisd.conf and restart amavisd the line dissapears and the change is moot

Holy I need a vacation ... changed the .in file and we're good. Thanks again Bill!!

[phoenix]

The file you should modify is amavisd.conf.in otherwise the changes will get overwritten every restart of Zimbra, do you have the .in file?

[phoenix]

Ah, you're too quick for me.