No - it's not getting as far as my SMTP. My pop3 host rejects it on receipt, so I never even see it. I use a respectable provider so I have to assume that they are well-behaved in their rejection.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Are you rejecting at SMTP (I think that's the proper way of describing > it) rather than bouncing the entire email including message > body? The reason I ask is that some spammers are using > servers that include the message body in the bounce as de > facto relays: Spammer wants to send spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but wants to be untraceable (and avoid Joe's IP blocklist), > so he forges [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the *from* line of the > header and then mails it to a non-existent address at your > domain, knowing that your server will "bounce" it all > (including the message body with the spam) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - right where the spammer really wanted it to go. > My university's mail server was configured this way until it > became widely blacklisted because of it. > > > -- > Mark Roberts > Photography and writing > www.robertstech.com > > > >
