Some really newbie quesitons.

[Randal, Phil]

<rant>

Bouncing it back is a total waste of time, resources, and merely confirms to
any spammer who's stupid enough to use their own legit "From" address that
you're a live recipient.

Don't even bother.  It's best to assume that all spammers use forged
addresses.  If that's not enough, ponder this.  They cared enough about you
not to spam you in the first place.  Oh, they did.  So why on earth do you
think they'll desist.  These guys, like virus authors, are the sociopaths of
the net.

</rant>

Cheers,

Phil
----
Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Paul Rantin
> Sent: 02 June 2004 12:14
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Some really newbie quesitons.
>
> Hi All
>
> Many thanks for all your inputs, like I said I'm a newbie to
> all of this.
> I've just started to mess about with mail servers. I'm one
> guy, one domain who all of a sudden is getting hammered by
> one of the big three US spammers, I get more that 700 emails
> a day of spam. They are using a blanket attack, i.e.
> *randomname*@mydomian.com and it gets very tiring trying to
> sort it out. That is why I have installed SpamAssasin and
> MailScanner. As Kevin emailed I am using a mail forwarded
> system from my hosting service and because of the way I have
> my mail system setup I use the catch all option which
> redirects to a mail account. Now with this amount of spam I
> have having to setup filers for all the mail addresses that I use.
> All of this is extra work for me and I am very angry that I
> have to do this. When I see other replies stating that I
> should just delete it my instant response is why should I if
> I am getting spammed why should I not bounce it back? Yes I
> know that the mail header is forged but I feel totally
> useless that someone is attacking my system and there's not a
> lot I can do about it. I thought some of it would maybe get
> back and if they seen that it was getting bounced it might
> get them to stop, again I know this more often than not the
> case but I have had a hacked attempt on the spam trap email
> account I had setup to process the incoming mails, so some do
> monitor what they get bounced back.
>
> As always I'm open to suggestions on how I can tackle this.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Paul
>
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