what to do about spam allegedly from me?

[mikea]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:13:54AM -0700, Chris Yuzik wrote:
> Good morning everyone,
>
> I've been noticing some spam walks right by the spam filters because they
> forge the "from" header to appear as though it's me that sent it. The spam
> scores high enough to get tagged, but it's whitelisted because it's from me.
>
> Any thoughts?

Yes: turn off the whitelisting. It's *not* from you. It just appears
to be from you.

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin