SPAM help

[Barney Wolff]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:04:53PM -0700, Orville R. Weyrich_Jr wrote:
> I have recently been getting a lot of bounce messages addressed to an
> in-mail box on my FreeBSD system <no-spam at AmeriRoots.com>.
> 
> These bounced messages were NOT sent by my system, because there is no
> user account by that name (it is an incoming forward to the account I am
> using to send this message).
> 
> I believe that these messages are spam with a forged header. I am afraid
> that my system will be black-holed by someone who thinks I really did
> originate the messages.
> 
> What can I do?

Not a damn thing.  Anyone who has the temerity to post to an email list
or put an address on a website gets these.  So far, I haven't noticed
being blacklisted because of them - perhaps the blacklisters have the
sense to notice that the From doesn't match the Received headers.  If
the volume gets too high, procmail is your friend.

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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