>One of the problems we have is that spammers often
>spoof our domain name in return addresses. They are
>not using our smtp (we have relays closed)
That's a problem we had on one of our domains. A spammer was using about 8
different fake usernames on a domain we have (and also using the same 8
fake usernames on a lot of other different domain names).
>Have any of you ran into a similar problem with
>IMail? Is there a way within Imail to stop this?
No, there isn't any (easy) way to detect this.
>Is there an easy way within Imail to trace the
>smtp that the spoofing is coming from?
No, that's impossible. All you get is a bounce message. It is up to the
server that was relaying the message to include the IP address, but most
will not. You can get the IP address of the mail server that is relaying
the spam, but probably not the IP address of the spammer.
>Thanks for any words of wisdom.
What we did is treated it as abuse of our domain. We thought legal action
would be trivial and unnecessary (even though it was going on for almost 6
months). So instead we kept track of all the information about the
spammer, and finally got to one of their web sites, clicked on the "order"
button to find the company that processes their credit card transactions
and their account number. We politely explained to the credit card company
what was going on. They replied that they terminated the account -- and
guess what? No more spam.
-Scott
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