>The problem here is that the spammer is sending out E-mail with the
>customer's return address.  The spam is being sent from other mailservers
>to other mailservers, so it can't be filtered.

Sure, I understand the issue.

But maybe you didn't read my post in-depth.  The filter is on bounce
messages that do NOT contain a local token.  So it is the very *fact* that
the original impersonation is happening on remote mailservers that makes the
technique work!  (I gave two examples of tokens, one that currently exists
and one which is theoretical, which might have been confusing).

Try the filter on some recent impersonated bounces, if you still have 'em
around.  I think you'll see that, while it does rely on a spammer not
bothering to hijack additional available information, it does work most of
the time with no false rejections.  And with a shifting token, it could work
99-100% of the time.

-Sandy




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