On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 02:02 -0700, Daniel Lemke wrote:
> For a short time we receive several hundreds of non delivery notifications
> and other failure notices on one of our mailboxes.
>
You've been joe jobbed by a spammer who forged your address as the
sender of his junk and then randomly generated user names for the
domains he targeted.
 
By setting up a valid SPF record for your own domain you will allow the
spam targets to detect forged sender addresses and avoid sending
non-delivery notifications to you.

Find out about SPF: http://www.openspf.org/ 
SPF test tools:     http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

This worked for me: as soon as I had a valid SPF record the joe jobbing
showers of messages dried up.


Martin



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