On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Erik Dasque wrote: [snip..] > As a result of those thousands (millions) of Spam emails sent 'by > me', I get a hefty number of undeliverable email notices in my inbox > (from the thousands of invalid address in the spammer address book). > It goes in waves, sometimes I'll go months without any and all of a > sudden I'll find 500 in my inbox.
It's called backscatter. SA does have specific tools for detecting it: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VBounceRuleset Search the archive of this list for discussions of the 'VBouce' rules and for discussions of handling "Bouce Back", there have been several threads recently. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa <dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include <std_disclaimer.h> Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
