OT - my domain must have become a spammer's source

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Sun Aug 28 23:20:22 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 18:28, Craig White wrote:

> ----
> since about 9:00 pm last night (approximately 18.5 hours ago), I have
> gotten over 3000 'bounces' - that's quite a bit. The ones that include a
> copy of the original email get parsed by spamassassin, tagged and put
> into a SPAMBOX. The ones that don't include a copy of the original email
> now fall through to a collection folder. That seems like a lot of
> bounces in less than 24 hours - I've been keeping them to get a 24 hour
> count.  ;-)
> 
> Craig

Sounds like a joe job.  They are using your email/domain in the forged
from address.  Hides them and dumps the traffic on someone else.

Don't think there is much you can do about it but filter the bounced
messages.  




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