Bleh, spammers.

[dvandom]

The latest spammer trick is forged reply-to on stuff that's going out to unconfirmed addresses, so that if there's no one reading the email at the first address, the bounce message spams some other guy. In 8 hours overnight, I got 450 such spams that made it through my filters, another 50 caught by SpamAssassin, and a few hundred caught by the content-checking manual filters I set up when this bounce-spam first started (most of it is for sex videos and fake designer watches).

Unfortunately, last night's flood means I now have to subject-filter on bounce messages in general, since they've broadened their content too much for me to keep up that way. So now I can no longer see if I actually send an email that bounces...well, I could, but it would require reading my spam folders so often that it wouldn't be worth HAVING spam filters.

Congratulations, anonymous assholes, for contributing further to turning a useful tool into useless crap.

Comments

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest setting up some sort of filter that shunts those bounces directly into the garbage. Once the deluge has ended you can loosen the reins on that filter.

I had that problem a year or two ago, set up a filter that sent that stuff straight to the trash and then after a couple weeks they stopped.