spam attack from apple.com on my server

Yesterday and today I have gotten (unsuccessful) spam attacks from IP's from apple.com. How do I report that, or is posting here enough? Or should I just block them and add them to my published black list?


Example :


Transcript of session follows.

 Out: 220 ESMTP  (Debian/GNU)
 In:  EHLO nwk-txn-msbadger0904.apple.com
 Out: 250-mail.tiedyetechguy.com
 Out: 250-PIPELINING
 Out: 250-SIZE
 Out: 250-VRFY
 Out: 250-ETRN
 Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
 Out: 250-8BITMIME
 Out: 250 DSN
 In:  MAIL FROM:<Do_not_reply@id.apple.com>
 Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok
 In:  RCPT TO:<phoughsey.lfm19301201@fej.org>
 Out: 550 5.1.1 <phoughsey.lfm19301201@fej.org>: Recipient address rejected:
     User unknown in virtual mailbox table
 In:  QUIT
 Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye


For other details, see the local mail logfile


From and (invalid) to addresses vary.


IP's are :

nwk-txn-msbadger0904.apple.com[17.151.1.95]

nwk-txn-msbadger0805.apple.com[17.151.1.90] 2 times

nwk-txn-msbadger0804.apple.com[17.151.1.89]

nwk-txn-msbadger0702.apple.com[17.151.1.81]

nwk-txn-msbadger0701.apple.com[17.151.1.80]

nwk-txn-msbadger0605.apple.com[17.151.1.78]

nwk-txn-msbadger0404.apple.com[17.151.1.65]

nwk-txn-msbadger0401.apple.com[17.151.1.62]

nwk-txn-msbadger0305.apple.com[17.151.1.55]

nwk-txn-msbadger0102.apple.com[17.151.1.32]


Posted on Mar 14, 2020 1:03 AM

3 replies

Mar 15, 2020 5:08 AM in response to donv_the_ghost

Thanks both for the replies. I have contacted Apple, and sent the information through. They will be looking into it.


I am so surprised at how well Apple supports customers. (And in this case, technically not really a customer, as I have not bought anything (no job, no money). And my server is CentOS Linux. I do have an iphone 6 I got as a present though.)


I cannot imagine getting such excellent support from ******soft. Or g***le, or any of those guys.


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