On Thu, Nov 30, 2006, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: To: Ira / Warning: could not send message for past 10 hours (fwd)": > > were. Who knows how many people do not get my email because of such > > things. > > you should, unless you ignore bounces. > > Sadly, I'm forced to ignore all bounces not originating by my own server > since at least one if not more spammers are bombing the world with fake > return addresses from abramov.org, ira.abramov.org and scso.com (and > maybe others).
This is not a new phenomenon - several times in the past I've been bombarded by bounces of spam and viruses which I supposedly wrote (but in reality, obviously, someone faked my address as the sender of these messages). At some points in time, I actually got more of these "spam bounces" than real spams - sometimes hundreds a day. It's not very hard to recognize these misdirected bounces, while still receiving legitimate bounces. The key is that bounced mail contains the "Message-id:" that you sent in your own mail; Since spammers do not (currently) attempt to fake their Message-ids, you can recognize your real bounces from fake ones. For example, here is my procmail script which puts all "fake bounces" into a folder "spambounces": :0 BH: *^from +MAILER-DAEMON[ @] * !^Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spambounces -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Nov 30 2006, 9 Kislev 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |What's the greatest world-wide use of http://nadav.harel.org.il |cowhide? To hold cows together. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
