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Preventing Outgoing Spam and Mail Bombing

  • Controversial solution: Block outgoing SMTP!

  • Effective, but can generate complaints, administrative headaches
  • More subtle technique: Transparent proxy on bastion host/firewall. IP Filter (ipnat) rule:

  • rdr ed0 0.0.0.0/0 port smtp -> 127.0.0.1 port smtp
  • Detection can then be done with log monitors such as
  • Sendmail "Milter" filter can also be created to watch traffic on proxy