Somebody's stupid e-mail address harvester can't tell the difference between an
e-mail address and a Message-ID header. The result is that a lot of spam is
sent to addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED], which came from the the Message-ID
header ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of a message that I once sent to
this list. This mail bounces because there is no such address, and, since a lot
of spammers aren't kind enough to provide a legitimate return addresses, much
of this mail double bounces to the postmaster, which is annoying him (me).
What I'd like to do is collect all of this mail in a Maildir, so I can avoid
all the double bounces. What I propose to do is put this in
~alias/.qmail-default:
|condredirect messageidspam sh -c "echo "$DEFAULT" | egrep -q '^a[0-9]+$'"
|fastforward -d aliases.cdb
(Right now ~alias/.qmail-default consists of just the fastforward line.)
Can anyone see anything particularly evil about the above? Is there a better
way to accomplish this? Am I the only one having this problem?
Thanks!
Chris
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