I have started to receive spam with a valid recipient address in my
domain, an envelop sender which is an invalid address in my domain and a
Delivered-To header already present showing it was delivered to the
addressed recipient.

Without the Delivered-To header the normal thing would happen, it would
be quarantined by my spam filters.  Because the header is already there,
Courier says "Mail loop", and tries to send a DSN to the invalid
address.  That fails, so it goes to Postmaster.  That forwards to me and
the spam filters quarantine the mail.  The end result is still the same,
sort of.

I don't know if including the Delivered-To header is an effort to get
around spam filters or just an incompetent spammer.  I could stop this
by rejecting mail that fails SPF but then I have the classic problem of
rejecting all the mailing list mail I receive.

It seems like everything is happening just the way it is supposed to and
anything I might do to respond to this will just break something.  Is
anybody else getting these kinds of spams?  Should I do anything about it?

Bill

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