[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is slightly off topic, but im sure everyone here might have thoughts on
it.

I have over 9300 instances of empty "from" lines so far this week, for
example:

Jan  5 16:36:46 mail sendmail[7568]: k05LajgX007568: from=<>, size=1578,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<VIEQUES>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,
relay=pool-151-197-121-196.phil.east.verizon.net [151.197.121.196]

These messages turn out to be like this:
From MAILER-DAEMON  Thu Jan  5 16:36:46 2006
From: Mable Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPAM (29.3)] Re: hi hi

As you can see, spamassassin takes care of it pretty well, but if I can
block the emails before the MTA, I should be better off, right?  Anyone have
any thoughts?

Lucky you, I'm getting about 500K an hour. We had to install 4 new front end mta's to handle the load. All bounces from major ISP's that accept then bounce later (It's a huge spam job using our domain as the from address).

Not much you can do about it really except live with it.

Regards,

Rick


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