Re: Tarpit SPAM trap
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:08:20 +0200, I. Forbes wrote:
>Hello All
>
>A professional spammer is using a forged "From:" header line
>which quotes a non existant address at one of our domains. Every
>spam he sends to a bad address gets bounced to us. We are
>running qmail, which by default, accepts these bounces then
>handles them as "double bounces".
[...]
>The problem is an irritation to me and obviously to all of the people
>who are getting the spam. My plan is to convert the qmail to exim
>(this is part of a larger project, which is why I have not done anything
>yet) then let exim refuse the bounce messages with a 500 error
>before they are accepted.
There should be a patch for qmail, which does this (IIRC).
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