Oops, I forgot to catch that one too. Yeah, if the spammer is forging your address as the reply-to address, then it makes it look like you are sending it to yourself. A lot of people mistakenly put their own address in their white list so they can send mail to themselves.
A better idea is to use a dated or keyword address for sending mail to yourself. --- Fergus Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reply-to is your address - is that in your bareappend? > > There is a FAQ on tmda.net on how to deal with this situation. > > Fergus > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:33:19PM -0500, David Banning wrote: > > OK. So TMDA, up until now seems to be flawless. Stops thousands of > spams > > per day. I get one coming in. Often I see why, but today I don't. > > > > My ~./tmda/logs/tmda_in says that the offending email was in my > > bareappend file; > > > > Date: Tue Nov 30 15:49:07 EST 2004 > > From: "Kristina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rept: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subj: my favorite site > > Actn: OK (from-file ~/.tmda/lists/bareappend accept) > > > > but this is not so. The last part of the address "espoo.fi" is > > -also- not in my bareappend file. I look at the email, and the > > first line of the email says; > > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 30 15:49:05 2004 > > > > I check and there is no user named "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in my > bareappend > > file either. Although there is 2 emails with the @aol.com end on > the email. > > Shouldn't matter, I figure. Still not a match. > > > > Any idea what could be going on and how I can track this down? > > > > -- > > _____________________________________________ > > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > > -- > Fergus Gallagher > _____________________________________________ > tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
