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Old 10-25-2018, 09:47 AM   #1
Mario Lima
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Rejecting incoming emails when they come from Amazonses service


Hello,

I have an uncomfortable problem that I need to be solved as soon as possible. I have this:

CENTOS Linux Server
Apache
Postfix
Postgrey
Amavisd
Spamassassin
Fail2ban

On this Server I have several mailboxes of my customers. It is POP and SMTP Server for all those mailboxes.

Many of my customers receive emails sent by enterprises and companies which use the Amazon Simple Email Service (www.amazonses.com), a very known email-marketing service from AMAZON corporation. That's OK, no problem with that.

But there are at least two or three specific senders, who use this service (it looks they are Spammers), whose emails I want and need to reject / discard. I am trying to do this through my /etc/postfix/access file. The problem is:

1) If I try to reject / discard them by their From email address or domain name, their emails are not blocked, they enter normally to our mailboxes:

spammerdomain.com.br REJECT (the domain name is masked)
spammerdomain.com.br DISCARD
badaddress@spammerdomain.com.br REJECT (the email address is masked)
badaddress@spammerdomain.com.br DISCARD

2) If I try to reject / discard them by the Amazonses Domain, so, they are really blocked:

amazonses.com REJECT
amazonses.com DISCARD

But, I don't want to block all Amazonses users, it is a serious service. I want to reject / discard just these two or three Spammers.

Questions:

Why this happens?
How can I accomplish it?

See below the Header records of one of these Spammers emails.

Thanks a lot in advance for any help.

Mario Lima./
_________________________________________________________


HEADERS RECORDS:

Return-Path: <0103545670712110-10f5g1b2-6a2c-4b73-9a44-14436946a66d-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com>
X-Original-To: multisites@srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br
Delivered-To: multisites@srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02AC2240989
for <multisites@srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br>; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:52:16 -0300 (-03)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at multisitesdominios.com.br
Authentication-Results: srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br (amavisd-new);
dkim=fail (1024-bit key) reason="fail (message has been altered)"
header.d=spammerdomain.com.br header.b=KvN6YosZ;
dkim=fail (1024-bit key) reason="fail (message has been altered)"
header.d=amazonses.com header.b=hhjTuzKR
Received: from srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with ESMTP id ja0LXtz_VOn3
for <multisites@srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br>;
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:52:16 -0300 (-03)
Received: from srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br (srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br [66.226.76.119])
by srv8.multisitesdominios.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3476C2240982
for <info@multisites.com.br>; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:52:16 -0300 (-03)
Received: from localhost (66-226-76-119.phx.dedicated.codero.com [127.0.0.1])
by srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9F1E110E
for <info@multisites.com.br>; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:46:24 -0300 (BRT)
Received: from srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with ESMTP id VV3rcOrCRW0P for <info@multisites.com.br>;
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:46:23 -0300 (BRT)
Received: from a27-23.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com (a27-23.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com [54.240.27.23])
by srv4.multisitesdominios.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id B298E1E1133
for <info@multisites.com.br>; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:46:23 -0300 (BRT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple;
o; d=spammerdomain.com.br;
t=1536263534;
h=Message-IDate:Subject:From:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:List-Unsubscribe;
bh=YTyx7DGxlvMexh13PSD8UcbvIb16plbXPZTTeZ6974Y=;
b=KvN6YosZ9bfjcmfrjeruJDyiHSTGrfyZ6c2kedkmgfikrtiudfjeHETI8/PfOr1AQkubD/bF
nzNSNU8q5JaIWarO8SJFHFGBRQzAnqcGpBSXingwrlhITRQBSh2NJ5Mhz5qelTC7rK0
feuBJi1NGoUbhsqBQ6fc+N6iKXZ0O8GZMy45l3tw=
Message-ID: <0101016zxc345510-09e5e1a2-6a2c-4b73-9a44-14423456a66d-111111@us-west-2.amazonses.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 19:52:08 +0000
Subject: ABRACADABRAPEDECABRA
From: Domain to be Blocked <badaddress@spammerdomain.com.br>
Reply-To: badaddress@spammerdomain.com.br
To: Multisites Servicos Ltda <info@multisites.com.br>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_=_swift_v4_1536228239_9f03b8f739eae9baa81fae3377f6fe3d_=_"
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:news+unsubscribe_5b234b90e3ddbg03468216@spammerdomain.com.br>,
<mailto:news+unsubscribe_5b90fb90e3dbb603334216@spammerdomain.com.br>,
X-SES-Outgoing: 2018.09.06-54.240.27.23
Feedback-ID: 1.us-west-2.isA0hk5qbAxETBLEMujslLN7TOYVRW5EtpUo56LcIds=:AmazonSES
 
Old 10-25-2018, 04:49 PM   #2
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Hi,

You could try this.

Another possibility is that you can use the spamassassin "blacklist_from" option to give those senders a 100 points spam score and configure amavisd to delete messages with a 100+ score.

Regards
 
Old 10-30-2018, 12:35 PM   #3
Mario Lima
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Hi, I choose to block through Postfix using header_checks parameters. Anyway, thanks a lot.

Mario./
 
  


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