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> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:37:42PM -0300, Ari Arantes Filho wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Someone is using another smtp server to send a very big spam, but they
> > write the header with FROM = an unknown user of one of my virtual domains,
> > so postmasters keep sending bounce messages or autoresponders to this
> > unknown user and my postmaster is receving more than 10000 emails.
> >
> > I've temporary created this unknows user, but how can I stop this? I
>
> Welcome to the world of unstoppable spam.
>
> Sorry to say Ari, you cannot stop it consuming some of your resources. I've
> had that happen on a site where the spammer sent something like 100K
> messages to AOL and about half of them were bogus addresses. Having AOL
> consume all your smtp concurrency for a day is not fun.
>
> You'll also probably get some hate mail from people who don't read headers
> closely enough and think the spam originated from your site.
>
> I'd be inclined to make the user valid and have their .qmail just be
> a comment so that the bounces gets delivered to nowhere. Other than that you
> have to sit it out.
>
> Regards.
Yeah...
Sad! But true!
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