Heimir: What mail gateway did you install and how effective was it?
Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. (303)-421-5140 www.warp8.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heimir Eidskrem Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] What is the purpose of this? We had one of our users hit with joe-job. We had to delete his email address and we installed a gateway after that :) He got somewhere between 5 and 10 million return emails within 3 days or so. Bruce Barnes wrote: > It's called "joe-jobbing", and happens when someone uses something > like OUTLOOK, or OUTLOOK EXPRESS, or any other mail server program > that allows the SENDERS RETURN ADDRESS to be different than the ACTUAL > sending e-mail address. > > For e-mail to truly take the next step towards accurate return > addresses, there needs to be a prohibition against using a return > address that's different than the actual return address of the person sending the message. > > If I sent a snail mail letter from my office, but used my, or someone > else's home address as the return address, it would amount to the same thing. > > It's almost impossible to stop at this point and all you (he) can do > is ride out the storm until the current spammer is done with this round of messages. > > Wkikpedia has some information (albeit not totally correct) at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job > > You can also Google joe jobbing and get lots of other results, blogs, > dialogues and information. > > Bruce Barnes > ChicagoNetTech > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark LeBlanc > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 15:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] What is the purpose of this? > > > This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains > information that may be proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or > copyrighted. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized > agent, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete this e-mail. > Use, disclosure or reproduction of this e-mail by anyone other than > the > recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. The sender makes no > representation that this e-mail or any attachments are free of viruses. > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
