I woke up to find over 4,000 failed spams, returned to the postmaster
account for one of the domains I host. Some spammer is forging that
address as their "From:" address, and thousands of MTAs are rejecting
the spam for various reasons, and it's all coming back to me.
They were coming in faster than I could delete them, so I disabled the
postmaster account. But this has serious repercussions, as many
mailing lists automatically reject email that comes from domains that
lack a postmaster address, and the various RFCs require it, as well.
This has happened to me before, and I patiently went through the first
dozen or so, working with dig and whois, and made IDENTITY THEFT
complaints to the spammers' ISPs, and it slowed the problem down, but
I don't have time for that today.
Anyone care to share their favourite tips and tricks for dealing with
this?
:::: Some call it vision; some call it temporal lobe epilepsy. ::::
:::: Jan Steinman http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com ::::
