On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:18:28PM -0400, Germán Poó-Caamaño wrote: > Since 3 or 4 weeks ago I've been receiving a lot of bounces from > emails I've never sent (backscatter). > > Today I received more than 500 of those emails, 1/3 or so coming > from .ru. I've created some local filters, not enough yet. And still > it means a lot of traffic. > > I'm not sure if I'm the only one; but you can check the logs.
Our weekly maillogs are between 3 and 4 GB.. there is no analysis possible. If you have a solution to the backscatter, please share. The only address that I noticed having problems is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias, not any other address (aside from mailing lists). The emails are generated by broken other mailing systems. Apart from breaking RFCs (rejecting bounces, thus breaking bounce detection by mailman), I don't see how to prevent this. Especially as anyone is free to use their own mailserver to send out mail using their @gnome.org alias. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
