Yeah, but I wanted you to hear it from someone else. ;) I'm afraid that "delete it and move on" is the best you can do.
It's really too bad that more people don't use/check SPF. That would stop a great deal of it. Richard Baxant wrote: > Thanks for the reply Eric, > > So from reading the info at the link you provided there really is not > too much you can do to prevent backscatter? > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Eric Shubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Richard Baxant wrote: >> > I am getting 100s of messages since yesterday to one of my emails >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these various subjects: >> > >> > failure notice >> > Delivery Status Notification (Failure) >> > Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender >> > Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender >> > >> > They are clearly all spam and virus messages, Is there a way I can >> > block these without killing the fact if a "valid" message actually >> > does fail that I still get the appropriate message? >> > >> > TIA >> > ricbax >> > >> >> These are probably what is called backscatter. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail) >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
