> Unless  the  spammer  is actually using the mail account (IE has the
> password   for   it),   the   only   actions   you   can   take  are
> non-technological  (IE  convincing  or  forcing the spammer to stop,
> using whatever creative methods you can come up with).

One still-technological method that is *fairly* sound is using a Combo
Rule to filter out messages that are

(1) from '<>' or '<MAILER-DAEMON>'

AND

(2)  do  NOT contain a known token such as the EHLO name of the user's
MUA  (you will have to research this). The concept is that, within the
Postmaster message, in the original, bounced RFC822 header text (which
may  or  may  not be in its own MIME part), only a message originating
from  the  user's station will be properly tokenized. (Of course, this
is  readily  trollable and forgeable, but most spammers would not have
any  call  to  do  this  that  I  know of.) It would be even cooler to
tokenize  a non-standard x-header of each e-mail at the server using a
hash of the user's e-mail (Scott?)--with weekly expiry or something to
make it even harder to abuse.

-Sandy


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