Uh, that should be a 5xx error *before* DATA, during HELO.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you come up with a good strategy for this, let me know.
>
>  Not only are we getting hit with it, for several weeks now, but I've
>  seen lots of complaints from others on various lists.
>
>  I think the only thing to do is encourage, as strongly as possible,
>  owners of broken mail systems to fix them. By this, I mean that they
>  should validate recipients, and not accept mail then bounce it. Mail
>  to invalid recipients should generate a 5xx error during DATA phase.
>
>  If you're using spamassassin however, the vbounce plugin is supposed
>  to offer some mitigation for this.
>
>  Kurt
>
>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:51 AM, yoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Hi all,
>  >
>  >  We are having a pretty big problem with backscatter for one of our 
> clients.  It seems that lately the spammers love spoofing their domain.  We 
> are getting several complaints a week from users receiving large quantities 
> of NDRs because of this.
>  >
>  >  I'm sure this must be a common problem for any company with a decent web 
> presence.  We aren't using SPF records right now.  I've read that often this 
> doesn't really help.  Also, it will be a little hard to pull off when we 
> control the corporate network, but not the website where some email will be 
> generated.
>  >
>  >  Has anyone gotten any suggestions or tricks for dealing with this.  
> Blocking/quarantining all NDRs seems like a bad idea also.
>  >
>  >  Or maybe our spam gateway should be catching most of these?  Lots of the 
> NDRs would contain the original message text, which is obviously spam.
>  >
>  >  Any ideas?
>  >
>  >  Bill
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