Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces?

From: Mark Foster (mark_at_foster.cc)
Date: 05/29/03

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Date: 29 May 2003 07:40:38 -0700

    I've always used ...
    foo@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@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@honeypot.net 550 I don't want this mail!
    > > michelle@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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-mdf [Mark D. Foster]	http://mark.foster.cc/
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