Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Wed May 28 21:41:51 PDT 2003


Some jackass(es) sent a bunch of spam with forged From: headers referring to
non-existent accounts on one of my domains.  Consequently, I've been getting
about 20,000 bounce messages per day to Erin at honeypot.net,
Michelle at honeypot.net, etc.  What's a good way to handle these?  If I set up
aliases to /dev/null, then I still have to receive an entire bounce message
before silently discarding it (and even worse, have to watch the
SpamAssassin milter process it before discarding it).  If I don't set up any
aliases for those users, then I get bounce messages from my own mailserver
telling me that it couldn't deliver the original bounce messages to the fake
usernames.

Help!

What I really want is something like:

if ($user == 'Erin' or $user == 'Michelle')
{
   send 550 to remote server
   do nothing else at all
}

Is this possible?  Please save me from being pushed over the line, buying a
paintball gun, and going hunting.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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