----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Jack" <colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: [coba-e:08568] Stemming returned undeliverables from spoofed spam
> I'm looking for some ideas from the more experienced guys out there.
>
> We have a number of clients who are being flooded with 'undeliverable'
> messages where a spammer has used their email address in the header for
> the From: field and they are getting all the bounces. Has anybody any
> idea how I might help stem the flow - one guy is getting 500 an hour and
> this has been going on for a week! Needless to say it is not helping my
> server load either!
>
> Using BQ 4.6 ... patched up to date.
>
> Thankks in anticipation.
>
> Colin
Whenever I see this I normally check to see if the site has an email
catchall set up and then remove their catchall email address, and add only
the valid email aliases they want.
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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net