I've recently experienced the same thing because of the Sobig.F virus. I'm using Odeiavir and F-Prot for Virus protection and decided to turn off the E-mail that lets the sender of a virus know they submitted a virus to my system. A lousy Sys Admin attempted to e-mail me to ask that I not send the Virus warnings. TMDA did what it does best and challenged him to authenticate. Rather than do that he submitted me to spamcop. I did turn off the bounce virus message just to lighten the burden on the web. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:01 AM Subject: Re: Welcome to spamcop!
> Lou-- > > I've shown up on the MAPS RLB after MAPS spammed me with their open > relay stuff, and TMDA dutifully responded with a challenge. (Must be > an open relay since they got some response from me, right?) > > On the same level of ignorance can be found ISPs that tag you as an > open relay because you use qmail AND TMDA. The scenario: ISP hammers > your SMTP port with various e-mail challenges. Sometimes, qmail will > take oddly-formatted To: headers and deliver them locally (can't > remember the exact format, something to do with an embedded "%"). > TMDA dutifully responds with a challenge, and now you're tagged. > > --Brian > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:25:04AM +0100, Lou Hevly wrote: > > Hi folks: > > > > Here's a good one; my TMDA challenge is being used as proof that I > > spam! > > > > I got the following virus-accompanied message sent to a TMDA-protected > > account: > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
