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Re: ** Forged spamming going on
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart () tech org>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:15:02 -0800
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Robert Tarrall wrote: [...] A user dialed into ATT, sent thousands of emails to aol.com users, with a forged return-address of youarecool () mailme com, which AOL bounces back to youarecool () mailme com, which is a domain I own. Relaying on my machines has no bearing on this.
Someone did this to me about six months ago, and yes, there's nothing you can do to prevent the bounces from coming your way. I used sendmail 8.9.1's access feature to cause *me* to bounce mail sent to the forged from address with code: 550 No such user; forged header address used by spammers It didn't help me in the AOL case; they don't appear to be watching for double-bounces. It did help with recipients who tried to reply to the forged from address. Stephen
Current thread:
- ** Forged spamming going on alex (Dec 20)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Derek Balling (Dec 20)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Steven J. Sobol (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Phil Howard (Dec 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Robert Tarrall (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on alex (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Stephen Stuart (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Steven J. Sobol (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Jon Lewis (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on alex (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Robert Tarrall (Dec 21)
- List of dialups (was Re: ** Forged spamming going on) J.D. Falk (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Dean Anderson (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on J.D. Falk (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Steven J. Sobol (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Paul Vixie (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Dean Anderson (Dec 21)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Dean Anderson (Dec 21)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: ** Forged spamming going on Derek Balling (Dec 20)