Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?
Mark Foster
mark at foster.cc
Thu May 29 07:40:39 PDT 2003
I've always used ...
foo at bar.com 550 address poisoned by spammers
or something more descriptive, as it helps the recipient of the bounce
(of the bounce) gets a clue.
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 07:32, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-05-29T05:58:05Z, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:
>
> > Don't accept the messages in the first place; that way, your machines
> > won't have responsibility for trying to bounce the messages later on.
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> > You don't mention which mail server you are using, but if you haven't
> > changed the default FreeBSD MTA, add something like:
> >
> > erin at honeypot.net 550 I don't want this mail!
> > michelle at honeypot.net 550 I don't want this mail!
> >
> > ...to /etc/mail/access and do a "make" in /etc/mail.
>
> Excellent! That was exactly what I needed.
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